Pydna (missile base)

Pydna is a former American missile base in Kastellaun, Germany named Wueschheim Air Station.

Wüschheim Air Station with six Ready Storage Shelter (RSS) for Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) with BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile

Matador missile at the entrance of Pydna during Nature One

Nuclear-equipped MGM-1 Matador, MGM-13 Mace, MIM-14 Nike Hercules and BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles were stationed here.

It now hosts Nature One, a famous open-air electronic music festival.

Festival facilities now use the same bunkers that were once home to 64 Ground-Launch Cruise Missiles (GLCM) (BGM-109), Tactical Nuclear Missiles, under the operational control of the 38th Tactical Missile Wing of the United States Air Force.

External links

• Pydna
• Wüscheim - Missile Ghost Town
• Site VI - Hundheim 405th Tactical Missile Squadron
• Bilder der Demo 1986
• Entwicklung zur Geschichte der Friedensbewegung im Hunsrück