In the meantime, housing estates have been built on the former site of the stadium, but the terraces of the former north and south curves and the main stand have been preserved as public green spaces, so that the former stadium structure is still clearly recognisable. From December 2005, the BГ¶kelberg myth was demolished. Exactly one year later, the very last football match took place in this stadium. On, the last Bundesliga match finally took place in the BГ¶kelberg stadium. At that point, there was no question of the Italians cheating their way into a replay of a game they had lost 7:1. After all, the legendary can toss that led to the game being replayed took place with the score at 2:1. Not even the legend surrounding this match is really coherent. This match was also annulled and disappeared from all chronicles. In wonderful contradiction, it became legendary precisely because of this, just like the European Cup match against Inter Milan in the same year. In the famous post-breaking match of 1971, the BГ¶kelberg disallowed a goal in the match against Werder Bremen, then the whole match was annulled and thus disappeared. Two of the most spectacular events in German club football could therefore only take place at a place like the BГ¶kelberg. The BГ¶kelberg did what makes a real myth. It was precisely these stories about Netzer, Heynckes, Vogts, Bonhof & Co that made the venue unique. Structurally, the BГ¶kelberg was always вЂњyesterdayвЂ™s newsвЂќ, but as a pure football stadium with a unique atmosphere it was streets ahead of the others, because nowhere else were the fans as close to the players and the action as there.ДЇrom the BГ¶kelberg, a generation of players set out in the 1960s to unhinge the football world with inspiring offensive play. And when the eastern slope was finally closed in 1972, the major Bundesliga rivals got new stadiums for the 1974 World Cup.

No sooner were the tiers of the BГ¶kelberg fortified in 1962 than promotion to the Bundesliga made it look old again. In the years following the opening of the вЂњKullвЂќ, ultra-modern stadiums were built elsewhere, e.g. It was officially called the вЂњWest German StadiumвЂќ, but the Gladbachers simply called it the вЂњKullвЂќ. Basically, it was a former gravel pit that had been surrounded by a wall and on the ground of which was a sports field. More than 100 years ago, in autumn 1919, the sports facility that would later become legendary under the name вЂњAm BГ¶kelbergвЂќ or simply вЂњBГ¶kelbergвЂќ celebrated its opening.

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