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Hof Tapken is an equestrian yard at Almsloh in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. The yard offers qualified riding instruction, therapeutic riding and livery stabling, and keeps a string of horses available for sale. Its team also works away from the farm as course designers and judges at competitions. The facility, the horses and current news are documented on the yard's own website, and visits are arranged directly with the contact person.
Stall Auffarth is a competition and livery yard in Bergedorf near Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony, owned by eventing rider Sandra Auffarth. The yard takes livery horses and offers schooling under saddle and riding instruction for owners and their horses. Its own cross-country course, complete with an ebb-and-flow arena, hosts training days and eventing competitions open to visiting riders. Show jumping and eventing horses are produced and sold from the stable, which also documents its breeding successes.
Gut Rethorn is a livery yard and riding facility at Ganderkesee in the Oldenburg region, run by owner Christina Pilger. Horses are kept on an all-inclusive package with an emphasis on welfare, individual care and a family atmosphere. The facility offers an indoor school plus several fenced outdoor arenas, including a 40 by 80 metre jumping arena convertible to a 20 by 60 dressage court and two 20 by 40 arenas on joint-friendly surfaces, one of which stays rideable down to minus 15 degrees. Floodlighting covers the jumping arena and one of the smaller arenas, and the yard hosts visiting dressage clinics.
Bellershof is a family-run Icelandic and gaited horse yard in Bürstel, part of Ganderkesee in the Oldenburger Land. Horses are boarded either in an open stable or in boxes, with heated drinkers, timed feeders, hay and haylage groups and individual mineral supplementation. The facilities include a lit indoor school with sound system, an oval track, a dressage arena, a round pen and open country for hacking, plus a tack room with personal lockers. Optional extras such as eczema care, administering medication and a sick or emergency box are available, and the yard runs a programme of courses through the year.
Sportpferde Scheel is a small family yard in Schönemoor near Ganderkesee, run by Uwe and Melanie Scheel together with their livery community. Its main focus is schooling and marketing talented young sport horses, and the team also helps buyers find a horse elsewhere if nothing on the yard suits. The stable offers retirement livery for horses that have finished their competition careers, including feeding, mucking out and daily turnout. Extensive pastures allow year-round grass keeping for horses that need a quieter routine.
Reiterhof Schmiemann is a family farm at Friesoythe in the Oldenburger Münsterland that has been running since 1940 and today concentrates on livery horses and suckler cows. The yard offers 43 large, bright boxes, a 20x40 m indoor school, a large dressage and jumping arena, and several pastures and paddocks. The facility is usable all day and open to every riding style, from dressage and showjumping to western and leisure riding. The Reit- und Fahrverein St. Georg Altenoythe-Kampe is also based here, and the two jointly run shows (WBO and LPO), clinics across a range of disciplines, and group hacks.
SAGA-Reitschule Einzelberg is one of nine SAGA riding schools in Germany, run by Gisela and Jens Heckmann on the edge of Groß Schneen, about 8 km south of Göttingen. The yard specialises in Icelandic horses, which live in a shared open stable and go out on the pastures next to the farm whenever possible; horses of other breeds are kept in outdoor boxes, also with group turnout. Facilities include two indoor arenas and an outdoor school, and the hacking country starts directly at the gate. Riding lessons are given daily, alongside trail rides, clinics and children's and youth riding holidays throughout the year. Livery places for boarders are offered in several different housing systems.
Pferdepension Toben is a small family-run horse boarding yard in Horsten in East Frisia. Boxes measure 15 to 21 square metres and can be paired with an individual paddock, and horses are fed twice a day on hay and grain grown on the farm. From May to October horses have 24-hour access to summer pasture; in winter they use a large turnout paddock with a covered hay and water station. A big riding arena and a lungeing ring are free for liveries to use, and two hacking routes lead straight out into the countryside. The yard takes horses of every age, from youngsters to retirees.
Gut Lehmweide is a specialist rearing and boarding yard at Wiesede near Friedeburg in East Frisia. The business takes in foals and young horses for species-appropriate rearing in age-matched groups, looks after broodmares through pregnancy and foaling, and starts young horses under saddle. Around twenty hectares of pasture, large-format stabling, paddocks and prepared riding surfaces support daily turnout in all weathers. Training is deliberately unhurried and pressure-free, with individual attention every day.
Hof Heisterbusch at Fredenbeck is run by Hannelore and Dietrich Bargsten as a Pferdewirtschaftsmeister operation dealing in and breeding horses. Horses are sold with purchase advice given, and the farm breeds and rears its own young stock. Liveries are kept with pasture access, in boxes with paddocks or outside, with an indoor school and an outdoor arena on site. Riding trails run through the surrounding countryside, and a holiday house on the property is let to visitors.
Müllers Hoff is an Icelandic horse stud at Farven in northern Germany, run for around thirty years by IPZV trainer Nana Degenhardt. About a hundred Icelandic horses live on the farm; the yard breeds from its own stallions, raises youngstock and sells horses of every age. Riding holidays, courses and camps are offered for adults, children, families and youth groups, together with regular riding lessons. Further services include livery, professional schooling (Beritt), a display group, a tack shop and the farm as an event location.
Reitverein Eystrup u. Umgebung e.V. is a riding club at An der Reithalle in Eystrup, in the Nienburg/Weser district of Lower Saxony. It offers riding instruction for a range of levels and runs a vaulting section. Members without their own horse can take up a share-ride or care-share arrangement with a club or privately owned horse. The club rents out horse boxes and gives members access to its arena and facilities.
The Reit- und Fahrverein Essen i. O. e.V. is the riding and driving club of Essen in Oldenburg, based on its own facility at Bloumenplacken. It teaches riders of every level, with a Zwergengruppe for the youngest children and pony games for juniors. Indoor and outdoor boxes are available for members' horses, and an online booking tool manages warm-up arena slots. The club also runs clinics and stages its own tournaments and events through the year.
Reitanlage Essel is a full-service equestrian yard in Essel near Schwarmstedt in Lower Saxony, run by Svenja Rittmeyer and Jürgen Oltrogge. It combines livery stabling with riding instruction, training placements for horses in work, and outdoor arenas for schooling. Riders based at the yard compete on the regional show circuit, and leisure riding activities are organised alongside the sport. Its position just off the A7 makes it easy to reach from Mellendorf, Winsen, Wietze and Walsrode.
Harlinger Pferdesport Corps (HPC) Esens is one of Germany's oldest riding clubs, founded in 1857 and today counting around 250 members in the Wittmund district of East Frisia. The club runs an FN-certified riding school that has been teaching riders since 2006, using its own indoor arena and outdoor riding areas. It also offers boarding with individual stalls and paddocks and round-the-clock horse care. Club life centres on regular training, in-house shows and a full competition calendar.
Heidegut Eschede is an equestrian centre and holiday estate in the Lüneburg Heath, run by a master horsewoman who teaches classical dressage. Riders are taught in dressage and jumping, individually or in groups, with cross-country schooling over the estate own terrain and dedicated programmes for children. Regular clinics with visiting instructors supplement the in-house teaching. The yard offers livery for privately owned horses and hires out its arenas. Holiday homes on the estate let guests combine a stay in the heath with riding.
The equestrian yard at Rittergut Lucklum sits on a historic estate at Lucklum near Erkerode in Lower Saxony. It specialises in service-oriented livery for boarders and offers qualified instruction and schooling. A modern 20 by 60 metre indoor arena can also be booked by day riders, and a riders lounge seating about 25 is available for small gatherings. A riding school with Shetland ponies runs alongside for children and young riders.
Moorriemer Reitklub e. V. is a riding club at Elsfleth on the Lower Weser. It teaches classical dressage, show jumping and vaulting to members of all ages, from beginners on its two school horses through to competitive vaulting squads. The club runs training clinics and hosts its own tournaments, and keeps a small number of livery boxes. Youth work, including visits from local kindergartens, is a regular part of its programme.
Reitverein Elsdorf u. Umgebung e.V. is a riding club founded in 1981 that moved to its present site at Rüspel, near Elsdorf in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district, in 2003. The grounds offer generous pasture and paddock space, an indoor riding hall, an outdoor arena, a jumping arena and a round pen. A twelve-box stable block provides boarding for members' horses. The club is a base for local riders across the Elsdorf area.
Privatstall am Berghof is a small private livery yard on a restored early-20th-century estate at Einbeck-Opperhausen, on the edge of the Harz foothills. Horses are boarded and looked after individually, and the yard also helps owners market and sell their own horses. The estate has guest apartments for riders travelling with a horse or dog, and rooms that can be hired for meetings and celebrations. The setting is quiet, rural and opens directly onto riding country.
Reit- und Fahrverein Einbeck e.V. is a riding and driving club whose grounds sit among the municipal sports facilities of Einbeck, with direct access to the town forest and open hacking country. Teaching covers basic and lunge lessons in the afternoon and dressage, jumping and advanced work in the evening, and the club runs holiday riding courses and prepares members for the Basispass, Hufeisenabzeichen and Reitabzeichen. It hosts a full tournament season from spring to autumn, from WBO entry-level classes up to LPO dressage and jumping at S level. Members can also stable their horses on site: standard, XL and window boxes with full board, individual paddocks and pasture, a 20x40m indoor arena, two sand arenas, a grass arena and a horse solarium.
Hof Garlebsen near Einbeck is a livery and training yard run by Josephine Neumann and Marco Stappenbeck. Horses live in generous boxes with paddocks, large pastures and reinforced winter paddocks with hay feeding, and boarding packages are put together service by service. Dressage lessons are given one-to-one at every level from beginner to competition, and horses are taken in for schooling and correction as full or part training. The yard also reconditions horses after injury, with Equitron treatment, feed management and coordination with the vet.
Islandpferdegestüt Leinebergland is an Icelandic-horse stud and riding yard at Haieshausen near Einbeck in southern Lower Saxony, run by Lea Gerbershagen. It offers riding lessons from beginner to advanced level, gaited-horse training, guided trail rides and boarding in several formats. The yard breeds Icelandic horses and puts a strong emphasis on animal welfare, sustainable land management and biodiversity on its pastures. Clinics, seminars and farm experience days for families, schools and groups run through the year.
Birkenhof Einbeck is a centre for horses and their people in Einbeck, southern Lower Saxony, combining animal therapy with a livery yard. Horses and dogs are treated with physiotherapy, osteopathy, Dorn-Breuss and craniosacral techniques, phytotherapy and bloodletting. The yard offers both boxes and open stabling, and runs courses and training days on the premises. The farm also breeds Shire horses, the largest horse breed in the world, and builds events around them.
