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Boarding facilities

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

811 businesses

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Rotenberg Ranch

Herzberg am Harz, Germany

Rotenberg Ranch is run by Stephanie Mock at Herzberg am Harz and works on trust-based horsemanship, independent of breed or discipline. She gives mobile riding lessons, takes horses in for schooling and works with anxious or difficult horses through groundwork and desensitisation training. Day and weekend courses, riding-badge clinics, HIPPOLINI children's groups, birthday parties and holiday camps run through the year. The yard also offers livery and riding holidays for guests who bring their own horse.

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Hof Stubbenkamp

Hemmoor, Germany

Islandpferdehof Stubbenkamp is a family-run Icelandic horse farm near Hemmoor in the Cuxhaven district, home to around fifty horses since 2010. The yard breeds from its own stallions, rears young horses and takes liveries, and offers riding instruction and horse training. Long trail networks run out from the farm through the fields, woods and meadows of the Osteland. On-site services include a HesturSalt salt chamber and Bemer therapy, and equestrian equipment is sold at the yard.

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Gut Appel Selkirk KG

Helvesiek, Germany

Gut Appel is a historic estate at Helvesiek between Hamburg and Bremen, first documented in the fourteenth century and restored by the Selkirk family since 2010. Around forty horses live on the estate, which offers a polo ground, a former trotting track, an irrigated 80 by 20 metre dressage arena, a grass jumping field inside the racecourse and a small indoor school. The estate is home to the Hanseatischer Polo Club and welcomes polo players, show jumpers, dressage and leisure riders alike; stable blocks can be leased for owners looking to keep their horse there. The Ponyschule Herzenspferd also operates on site, and the estate restaurant and event barn round out the setting.

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Hof Wilharm

Helpsen, Germany

Hof Wilharm is a family-run boarding stable near Stadthagen in Lower Saxony, specialising in species-appropriate keeping of livery horses. Horses are stabled in quality boxes with access to private pastures, and the yard takes care of feeding, grooming and daily management. Riders have an outdoor arena and an indoor school on site, with quiet hacking country around the farm. The business describes professional horse care in a family atmosphere as its guiding priority, and boarding enquiries are taken by phone or WhatsApp.

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Klinter Hof

Hechthausen, Germany

Klinter Hof is a horse boarding yard (Pferdepension) in Klint near Hechthausen, between the Geest and the Elbe marshes in Lower Saxony. It offers boxes with full board and a 20 x 40 m indoor arena with dust-free footing, installed in 2017. Large summer pastures are available, and the yard takes in mares for pregnancy, foaling and youngstock rearing. A rider lounge overlooking the arena, a heated common room and generous trailer parking are on site. The Klinter forest starts about 200 m away and opens directly onto the surrounding hacking country.

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Pferde- und Therapiehof Steinlah

Haverlah, Germany

Pferde- und Therapiehof Steinlah is a therapy yard in Steinlah near Haverlah in Lower Saxony, run by Imke Fuchs. It offers hippotherapy, physiotherapeutic treatment on the horse for people with physical impairments, and curative-educational support with horses aimed at individual development, perception and confidence. Sessions run one-to-one and in groups, and no previous experience with horses is needed. The yard also boards horses, including retirees, alongside its therapy work.

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Reitverein Hattorf

Hattorf am Harz, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Hattorf e.V. is a riding and driving club in Hattorf am Harz, Lower Saxony. It runs its own riding facility with stabling for boarders and an organised riding programme for members. The fixture list includes a tournament, a western show and a school-holiday programme for children. Riding places are currently full, and enquiries are added to a waiting list.

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Reithalle Hasbergen

Hasbergen, Germany

Reithalle Hasbergen is a livery yard in Hasbergen, on the western edge of the Teutoburg Forest about ten kilometres from Osnabrück city centre. Horse boarding is its core business, with an indoor school, arena and turnout on the property. The location combines good access to the Osnabrück area with quiet surroundings and direct hacking country. Prospective clients are invited to arrange a viewing by phone or email before stabling a horse. The yard is run by Andreas Schierke.

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Hof Lemmermann

Harsefeld, Germany

Hof Lemmermann is a family-run yard at Harsefeld where licensed instructors teach riding to children from age two upwards. Experience days for four- to twelve-year-olds and pony-themed birthday parties run through the year. The farm has a brine chamber (Solekammer) used to help horses with respiratory problems. Livery places are also offered in the boarding stable.

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Paddock Trail Ehrenberg

Harsefeld, Germany

Paddock Trail Ehrenberg is a nature-oriented livery yard at Harsefeld in Lower Saxony, built around a paddock trail system. Horses move freely along the trail with access to grazing and to the surrounding Aue water meadows, and the operators put equine welfare at the centre of how the yard is run. Riding terrain adjoins the property directly, so hacking starts at the gate. The yard describes itself as a friendly, sociable livery community with a relaxed stable atmosphere.

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Reiterhof Lüssing GmbH & Co. KG

Haren (Ems), Germany

Reiterhof Lüssing is a full-service equestrian centre at Raken near Haren on the river Ems, set in woodland in the Emsland region. It offers permanent livery for resident horses as well as guest stabling for visiting riders, alongside guest rooms and apartments on the farm. Riding lessons are given by qualified instructors in indoor and outdoor arenas, and more than 60 km of sandy bridle paths start at the yard. Carriage drives, hunts, competitions and other equestrian events run throughout the year. The on-site Rakener Reiterstube provides catering for riders and guests.

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Waldhof Reitanlage Ollsen

Hanstedt, Germany

Waldhof Reitanlage is a riding and boarding yard run by Maud Mackenroth and Mira Mackenroth-Schwab at Ollsen, inside the Lüneburg Heath nature park south of Hamburg. Horses are kept in boxes or in open stabling, and guest horses are taken in for riders passing through. The yard sits on roughly 250 kilometres of connected bridle paths, so hacking and terrain riding are the main draw. Courses and events are held through the year, and a salt-air inhalation room is available on site.

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Islandpferde vom Lührshoff

Hanstedt, Germany

Islandpferde vom Lührshoff is a boarding yard at Nindorf in the Hanstedt area of the Lüneburg Heath, run by Stefanie Haake, with around fifty Icelandic horses kept in small open-stable groups. Separate groups are run for mares, geldings, senior horses and horses with metabolic conditions, and the yard handles supplementary feeding and medication. Facilities include two dressage arenas, a natural oval track, a lunging circle and a gallop track, with extensive hacking through the surrounding heath. Schooling and riding lessons are available, the yard arranges farrier and veterinary visits, and courses, rallies and social events run through the year.

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Seevehof - Coaching, Glamping, Pferdepension

Hanstedt, Germany

Seevehof is a farm at Hanstedt-Weihe in Lower Saxony that combines horse-assisted coaching with livery and farm-stay accommodation. Marie Amrhein leads individual and group coaching sessions in which the horses work as partners in the process, alongside indoor sessions for teams and families. The farm keeps boarded horses and offers rides and hacks out over the land. Guests can stay in a tiny house or camp on the meadows, and the holding is run on organic, sustainable lines.

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Scuderia Hanstedt GmbH&Co.KG

Hanstedt, Germany

Scuderia Hanstedt is a family-run equestrian centre in the Lüneburg Heath at Hanstedt, Lower Saxony. It offers full livery in several box types, with feeding, bedding and daily care handled by qualified staff. Riding instruction covers dressage and jumping, and a riding school with school horses serves children and adults. Horses are also taken in for professional training and coaching, clinics and events are held on site, and hacking country is directly accessible from the yard.

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Reithalle Lippoldshausen

Hann. Münden, Germany

Reithalle Lippoldshausen, trading as Ausbildungsstall Duchac, is a sport-horse training yard at Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony, represented by Patricia Duchac. It offers full livery in its own stabling with a complete care package for the horse. Schooling and backing of sport horses is its core service, together with competition presentation by the yard's riders and clipping, grooming and general horse care. Riding lessons are given on site. The yard also brokers sale horses, including international placements.

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Hof Buschbur

Handeloh, Germany

Buschburs Ferien- und Reiterhof at Höckel near Handeloh in the Lüneburger Heide keeps liveries in a range of box types and runs its own riding facility. The indoor school measures 60 × 20 m, and there is an outdoor arena, a horse walker for up to four horses at a time, a securely fenced round pen with AS Ground and a height-adjustable horse solarium. Large pastures and individual paddocks are available, and riding trails lined with old oaks lead off the yard. Riding courses in a variety of disciplines are held on site, and there is a heated riders' lounge.

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Jobenshof

Handeloh, Germany

Jobenshof is a livery yard at Inzmühlen near Handeloh, on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath, run by Ralph Kröger for around 25 years. It specialises in species-appropriate group housing and offers three formats: an active movement barn, a standard open stable and an Offenstall Deluxe, with managed feeding and pasture rotation. On-site facilities include an indoor school, a covered lunging hall and an outdoor arena, and hacking routes lead straight from the yard into the surrounding heath. The yard caters mainly to leisure riders who want their horses kept in a herd.

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Reha-Stall Danecki

Halbemond, Germany

Reha-Stall Danecki is a natural horsemanship and rehabilitation yard in Leezdorf, East Frisia, run by Nastasia Danecki. The work is built on reading a horse's natural behaviour and psychology, establishing leadership through body language, trust and respect rather than force. Services cover schooling and education, trailer-loading training, courses and the rehabilitation of problem horses, alongside general soundness and conditioning work. The approach is discipline-neutral and benefits leisure and competition riders alike.

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Aktivstall am Mühlenacker

Hagen im Bremischen, Germany

Aktivstall am Mühlenacker is an active-stable livery yard in Hagen im Bremischen, Lower Saxony. Horses live in mare and gelding herds of up to 25 animals, with transponder-controlled feed stations delivering individually configured hay and mineral rations through the day plus daily turnout on the pastures. The yard has a floodlit and drained 20 x 40 m arena, a round pen, a weather-protected grooming area, tack lockers, trailer and carriage parking and a riders' lounge, with direct access to forest and field hacking. The whole site is enclosed with wolf-proof fencing, and visiting trainers run courses on the yard.

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Palomino-Farm Gestüt Köhn

Hagen im Bremischen, Germany

Palomino-Farm is a western riding centre and Quarter Horse stud between Bremen and Bremerhaven, in operation for more than forty years and one of the longest-established western yards in Germany. Owner and trainer Torsten Köhn, who trained in the United States, breeds and schools Quarter Horses and Paint Horses that have made a name for themselves in Germany and across Europe. The farm trains client horses in all western disciplines and teaches riders from beginners and leisure riders through to competitors. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a 40 x 60 m outdoor arena, a covered round pen, fifty boxes, a treatment room, large turnout areas and fifteen hectares of adjoining pasture, and full-service livery is offered.

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Hof Beckerode

Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Germany

Hof Beckerode in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald is a dressage yard run by the Koch family. Horses are schooled to order up to the advanced dressage classes and presented at competition, with additional training sessions arranged as needed. The team also advises on buying and marketing horses and coordinates vet, farrier, vaccination and worming appointments for the horses in its care. The yard works with ambitious amateurs and professionals alike from modern stabling and its own riding hall.

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Reitverein Hainholzhof

Göttingen, Germany

RV Hainholzhof Göttingen und Herberhausen e.V. is a riding club whose grounds sit inside the Göttingen city forest. The site provides stabling and boxes for members horses together with riding facilities on a well-kept complex. The club no longer offers riding or vaulting instruction and now concentrates on horse keeping and on riding for its members. It is entered in the register of associations at the Amtsgericht Göttingen.

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Birkenhof Geismar

Göttingen, Germany

Göttinger Birkenhof is a riding school and working farm on the edge of Göttingen. Instruction follows German FN guidelines and covers children, young riders and adults, starting from lead-rein and lunge lessons. Horses are kept in open stabling and paddock boxes, with riding arenas and a round pen on site. The farm also hosts children's birthday parties and keeps guest rooms for visiting riders.

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