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Livery yards and mare boarding — somewhere safe to keep them, wherever you are.

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Reitschule Mechtersen e.V.

Mechtersen, Germany

Reitschule Mechtersen e.V. is a family-run riding school and boarding yard at Mechtersen near Lüneburg, run as a registered club since 1971. It teaches riders of every level across all disciplines and schools horses alongside them. The site has an indoor school, dressage and jumping arenas, an equine solarium, paddocks, pasture and open stabling. Horses and ponies are sold from the yard, and the surrounding terrain includes a cross-country course.

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Hof Tönns

Marxen, Germany

Reitanlage Hof Tönns is an FN-certified five-star livery yard at Marxen, about 30 km south of Hamburg near the Thieshope motorway exit, in operation since 2006. Horses are kept in generously sized boxes with paddocks and daily turnout, bedded on straw, and are fed hay or haylage two to three times a day plus oats or muesli three times. The facility has a riding hall, a dressage arena, a jumping arena, a lunging hall and a horse walker, along with a solarium and two wash bays with heated water. The yard administers veterinary medication, runs an annual worming programme and notifies owners by SMS if there is a health concern. Trailer parking and summer grazing are part of the offer.

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Familie Eckhoff

Marxen, Germany

Islandpferdepension Familie Eckhoff is an Icelandic-horse livery yard in Marxen, south of Hamburg on the edge of the Lüneburger Heide. Boarding ranges from group keeping in an open stable through to individual boxes in a round barn, with a separate option for stallions. The yard is run by agricultural engineer Eva-Barbara Eckhoff and a trained team, who also advise owners on feeding and horse care. Riders have an arena, guest paddocks and extensive hacking country directly on the doorstep. An IPZV-qualified trainer offers horse schooling and riding instruction on site.

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De Paddloepers - Inga Schnelle

Martfeld, Germany

De Paddloepers is the yard of trainer Inga Schnelle in Martfeld, between Bremen and Nienburg. Riding instruction here starts from the horse's health and biomechanics, working towards a seat and a way of going that horse and rider can sustain, with tensegrity training used alongside ridden work. Children from about four are taught through the HIPPOLINI® method, which builds confidence and horsemanship before conventional riding lessons. Horses are kept in a paddock trail system that encourages constant natural movement, and the yard also takes horses for schooling and for training-based rehabilitation. Inga additionally gives external lectures, courses and training days.

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Pensionsstall Rönner Elbwiesen

Marschacht, Germany

Pensionsstall Rönner Elbwiesen is a livery yard on the Elbe meadows at Rönne, part of Marschacht in Lower Saxony. Boxes are available in an older and a newer stable block, alongside sand paddocks with daily service, day-and-night summer grazing and separate four-hour turnout for mares and geldings. The facility includes a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a floodlit 20 x 40 m outdoor arena, a jumping field, a lunging ring and a wash bay, and hacking country starts directly at the yard. Full and part schooling of horses can be arranged, and the yard suits competition and leisure riders alike.

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Gestüt Hagewede

Marl, Germany

Gestüt Hagewede is a sport-horse breeding operation run by the Heidmeyer family at Hagewede near Marl in Lower Saxony, under the motto "horse breeding out of passion". The stud keeps its own band of broodmares and raises the resulting foals and young horses on the farm. Homebred horses are offered for sale directly from the yard. Foaling and rearing places are also available to outside breeders, with a grazing season from May to October and daily checks. The pastures lie directly at the farm.

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Hof Rabeler

Lüdersburg, Germany

Hof Rabeler is a boarding and training stable run by Britta Rabeler, a qualified equestrian professional. Horses are kept in outdoor boxes, indoor stalls and run-in boxes, with daily turnout on paddock or pasture as standard and summer grazing available. An FN-licensed trainer teaches beginners and advanced riders on their own or the yard's horses. Horses are schooled and developed on site, including young-horse work and preparation for mare performance tests, and are presented at competition on request. The facilities include an arena with a dressage school, a lungeing circle and high-fenced paddocks suitable for stallions.

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Islandpferdegestüt Nypahof

Lüdersburg, Germany

Nýpahof is an Icelandic-horse stud in Lüdersburg east of Lüneburg, run by Laura and Steve Köster. The yard breeds Icelandic horses, stands its own stallions and regularly has trained sale horses on offer. Schooling (Beritt) and riding lessons are available for horses and riders at every level, and boarding places are offered on the farm. The Kösters also supply riding equipment made for Icelandic horses.

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Reit- & Ferienhof Laubach

Lüchow, Germany

Reit- & Ferienhof Laubach is a riding and holiday farm at Rehbeck near Lüchow, in the Wendland region of Lower Saxony. The farmhouse dates from 1886 and sits in a traditional Rundling village on the edge of the Lucie forest. The riding side of the business offers lessons, riding courses and Reitabzeichen badge training, an indoor school and a competition arena, plus dressage, jumping, vaulting and hacking. It provides livery and guest boxes for visiting horses, and also runs riding for people with physical or learning disabilities as well as carriage drives. Riding holidays for children, young people and adults are the farm's main season business.

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Reitsportzentrum Brundiers

Löningen, Germany

Reitsportzentrum Brundiers is a riding centre in Löningen-Ehren, Lower Saxony, run by Anne Brundiers. Instruction covers dressage, jumping and cross-country for riders from school-pony beginners through to competitors, taught by trainers with tournament experience. The centre keeps livery horses and runs clinics and riding-badge courses through the year. Events and tournaments are hosted in cooperation with the local riding club, and a solarium horse trailer is available for hire.

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Schlag`s Pferdepension

Loxstedt, Germany

Schlag's Pferdepension is a livery yard at Hahnenknoop in the municipality of Loxstedt, Lower Saxony. A former mixed farm was converted step by step into a horse-keeping operation built around species-appropriate housing. The site has paddocks, riding arenas and pasture for boarded horses. Prices and the details of the livery packages are published on the yard's website.

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Reitsportanlage BP

Loxstedt, Germany

Reitsportanlage BP is a dressage yard near Bremerhaven run by Marco Bührig and Tatjana Piontek. The business schools horses under saddle and teaches dressage from novice level up to Grand Prix, with facilities built to allow training in any weather. Trained dressage horses are produced and offered for sale, and full livery with daily turnout is available. The yard also hosts dressage clinics, seminars and competitions.

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Pferdehof Pool

Lingen (Ems), Germany

Pferdehof Pool has run a riding school and livery yard in Lingen-Ramsel in the Emsland district since 1997. Boarding options range from 3x3 m pony boxes to 4x3 m horse boxes and oversized 6x3 m allergy boxes, backed by rotating paddocks, four open shelters and full daily care including turnout, mucking out, bedding and feeding. The riding school teaches dressage and jumping in group or private lessons for children, adults, beginners and returning riders, with school horses from Shetland pony to full-size horse. Children can work towards the kleines and großes Hufeisen certificates, and holiday courses and riding shares are available. Separate dressage and jumping arenas serve both sides of the business.

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Ländl. Reit-u. Fahrverein Lindhorst u. Umgebung von 1926

Lindhorst, Germany

Founded in 1926, this is the oldest equestrian club in the Schaumburg district and today counts roughly 500 members. It runs its own facility at Eichhöfe between Lindhorst and Lüdersfeld, with a 20 x 45 m indoor school, a 20 x 50 m outdoor arena, a lungeing ring, paddocks and pasture. Certified trainers give lessons on the club's school horses as well as on members' own horses, including lungeing tuition for beginners. Twenty livery boxes are available, and the club fields riders at regional competitions.

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Stall Osterkamp

Lindern (Oldenburg), Germany

Stall Osterkamp is a family yard in Liener near Lindern, Lower Saxony, run by Helmut and Bernd Osterkamp, the latter a qualified FN Bereiter. The stable accompanies a horse through its whole early life, from the foal and the birth of the next generation to the finished competition horse. Breeding and rearing sit alongside the schooling of young horses and show jumpers. The yard also takes livery horses and works with a regular veterinary team on site.

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Islandpferde vom Eekenholm

Lilienthal, Germany

Islandpferde vom Eekenholm is an Icelandic-horse yard on a farmstead dating from 1821 in Lilienthal-Seebergen, five minutes from Bremen-Borgfeld. Barbara Reichenberger and Ulrike Gast offer boarding in several open-stable groups with direct pasture access, or in large loose boxes with outdoor paddocks, for around forty Icelandic horses and a few larger horses. Facilities include a small indoor school, a sand arena, an oval track, a round pen and a grass arena for in-hand work, with extensive hacking through the Wümme meadows. Riding lessons for children and adults are given on the yard, equine-assisted therapy is offered, and a visiting instructor teaches the classical-academic style.

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Leevster Hof - Anne-Kathrin Glandorf

Lilienthal, Germany

Leevster Hof is an active-stable yard at Lilienthal near Bremen run by Anne-Kathrin Schleufe-Glandorf, specialising in Icelandic horses and other rare breeds. Livery is organised around species-appropriate group housing with free movement rather than individual boxes. The yard gives riding tuition and takes horses in for schooling, and runs individual training programmes built around each horse. Rehabilitation work and osteopathic treatment are offered alongside the training side.

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Henry Breden

Lilienthal, Germany

Reitstall Breden is a riding stable at Frankenburg on the edge of Lilienthal, north-east of Bremen in Lower Saxony. The yard keeps horses on site and can be reached directly by phone or email for enquiries. Its public website is deliberately minimal and points visitors to the stable Instagram account, where current news, yard life and photos are posted. Anyone interested in the stable is invited to get in touch for details.

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Islandpferdehof ViHara

Lilienthal, Germany

Islandpferdehof ViHara is an Icelandic-horse yard at Vierhausen near Lilienthal, just outside Bremen, run by Jana Scherenberger. She is an IPZV Trainer B, an API examiner and a Hestadagar judge, and teaches either on the yard horses or on the riders own horse. The yard takes horses in for schooling (Beritt) and offers boarding as well as courses and clinics. Scherenberger also assesses Icelandic horses and advises buyers, and sale horses are offered from the yard.

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Veltenhof Stadtlander

Lilienthal, Germany

Veltenhof Stadtlander is a livery yard and breeding operation on eleven hectares at Lilienthal near Bremen, in business for around 25 years. Three barns hold about 80 boxes — paddock, window and interior — with daily mucking out, organic hay and weekday turnout. Facilities include a 45x22 m indoor school with LED lighting and a lungeing hall with two circles. Qualified riding instruction and schooling are available on site, and the yard breeds Hanoverian horses.

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Reiterverein Lilienthal

Lilienthal, Germany

RV Lilienthal is a riding club just outside Bremen with more than 75 years of history. It teaches riding to beginners, returning riders and advanced riders on well-schooled club horses, and runs a dedicated children's pony hour. Vaulting is a second major discipline, with its own instruction and competition squads. The club also operates a livery yard at its site on Im Orth, with an indoor school and published stabling prices. It hosts dressage shows, WBO competitions, vaulting competitions and an end-of-indoor-season event each year.

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Hof Tietjen

Lilienthal, Germany

Hof Tietjen is a leisure-riding yard at Lilienthal, just north-east of Bremen. Horses are kept either in a herd-based open stable or in boxes with daily turnout, and the yard puts animal welfare at the centre of how it is run. Facilities include a 20 x 60 m indoor school and several outdoor riding areas, with hacking straight from the yard. Certified instructors give lessons, and riding shares and training places are available. The farm also lets two holiday apartments, Eiche and Linde, for riding holidays on site.

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Reitstall Lucas

Lengerich, Germany

Reitstall Lucas is a family-run livery yard at Sudderweh in Lengerich, Lower Saxony, where the emphasis is on keeping horses in harmony with nature. The yard offers full boarding, professional schooling (Beritt) and an aqua trainer for conditioning and rehabilitation work. Horses are worked across dressage, jumping and western riding, and the surrounding countryside opens onto long hacking routes. The family also lets a holiday apartment on the yard and hosts occasional events.

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Reit- u. Fahrverein Hämelerwald

Lehrte, Germany

The Reit- und Fahrverein Hämelerwald was founded in 1972 just outside the village of Hämelerwald near Lehrte. It is mainly a leisure-riding club but brings in outside instructors for dressage and jumping lessons. The yard has 7 pony boxes and 15 horse boxes, two of them outdoor boxes, with all-day summer grazing and winter turnout on outdoor paddocks. There is a small indoor school, a 20 x 40 m arena and hacking straight from the grounds, plus the club's own school horses and ponies. Lessons run for children and young people at the weekend and for adults during the week.

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