Nature One Details...

Nature One Festival, Raketenbasis Pydna, Kastellaun, Germany

The Nature One Festival is a large German Dance Festival that takes place every year at the Palazzo Bingen in Bigen

Nature One History...

It all began in August 1995 with over 100 DJs and ravers specially gliding in by plane to celebrate Germany's first, major, open-air rave with 13,000 other party people on the former US Hahn Airbase in the lush-green hills of the Hunsrück. With only the sky above them, in the open, unspoilt countryside, and where the views are not obscured by walls and concrete. A new base for the values of our culture. A festival of freedom and of open-mindedness.

Far, far more than just a new, large-scale rave begins on this warm summer's day. An incredible story starts to unfold, and it is the story of a new world: the world of Nature-One Land!

One year after lift-off at Hahn, the party moves to the Pydna missile base. Taxiways for mobile launch pads turn into open-air floors, and grassy nuclear missile bunkers into chill-out zones. Pydna becomes the party base.

Then everything really gathers pace and 1997 sees the open-air rave growing to festival status, with camping and tents. Partying, dancing, loving and finding friends for a whole weekend. A new, and boundless, and sublime sense of togetherness is created.

The following summer sees the first clubs moving from the towns and the cities to NatureOne Land. Neon lights are exchanged for fireflies, and the blare from the streets for chirping crickets. In 1998 there are a "mere" seven, in 1999 already eleven and in 2003 as many as 16 clubs that construct their country castles at Pydna.

NatureOne Land opens its gates for the very first time on the Thursday in the year 2000, staging a warm-up party in the camping village. This year also sees the Red Bull House making its debut as the fourth headfloor. With "Thunderdome" (Holland) and "Energy" (Switzerland), the clubs become international. And not even torrential rain and mud everywhere can dampen our party spirit in this wet summer! The warmth of our hearts triumphs over the rain!

The inexorable advance has been continuing ever since, with more and more people getting together in NatureOne Land year after year and metamorphosing green fields into a colourful, pulsating party world. And all so that once a year they can shape the world as it always really should be!

This year we are celebrating our tenth birthday. Now that calls for a party, the likes of which not even Pydna has seen before! There'll be a special anniversary floor as the grand and glittering birthday cake, with all the heroes who have been with us from the beginning.