Nature One

Nature One has run since 1995 at Pydna, a former United States Air Force nuclear missile base near Kastellaun in the Hunsruck, using the same grass-covered concrete bunkers that once housed Cold War-era cruise missiles as stages and dance floors. More than 60,000 attendees gather over four days each summer for a lineup spanning techno, trance and house across roughly twenty stages, including underground bunker floors.

The Pydna site near Kastellaun, in the wooded Hunsruck region, was built and operated as an American military installation, known as Wueschheim Air Station, housing nuclear-capable Matador, Mace and Nike Hercules missiles and later ground-launched cruise missiles under United States Air Force control during the Cold War, its concrete bunkers designed to survive attack while sheltering weapons intended for possible nuclear strikes.