a multi-day open-air festival held at ferropolis, a decommissioned open-cast mining site in saxony-anhalt whose permanent landscape of giant industrial excavators serves as the stage backdrop. the site includes lakeside camping and operates at significant scale across multiple floors, with programming spanning techno, trance, psytrance, hard dance, and adjacent underground styles.

ferropolis is an established destination for large-format electronic events in central europe, and hive is one of its recurring summer fixtures. the organizers also run club events under the same name.