Livery yards and mare boarding — somewhere safe to keep them, wherever you are.
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Pferde vom Grannenhof is a family riding yard at Rittierode near Einbeck in Lower Saxony. It keeps a large string of ponies and horses that are used for lessons and offered for sale, matching riders with a suitable mount for dressage, jumping or leisure riding. The yard gives riding lessons, runs clinics and takes livery horses. It also hosts riding holidays, pony days and children's birthday parties.
VET-Train is the training yard of veterinarian Carolin Hogrefe in Eickeloh, Lower Saxony, where the training methods are built on a veterinary understanding of how the equine body works. Work covers seat training and posture diagnostics for riders, groundwork, behavioural shaping, Working Equitation, and circus dressage and liberty work. The yard also takes livery horses, manages feeding and care programmes, and raises youngstock. Guest accommodation is available for riders travelling in for training.
Team Ixes is a training and sales yard on the Hauptstraße in Ehra-Lessien, Lower Saxony, run by Henrike and Birgita Habermann. Horses are schooled for dressage and show jumping, and dressage horses, jumpers and ponies from the yard are offered for sale. Physiotherapy and dental correction are provided for the horses in its care. The site is a full livery facility with an indoor school, outdoor arena, solarium, wash box and turnout paddocks.
Islandpferdegestüt Isberg is an Icelandic-horse stud at Egestorf in the Lüneburg Heath, not far from Hamburg, founded in 2017 by Yvonne de Rijcke and Mike Hecker. The farm has 42 hectares of pasture available to the horses all year round and runs a small, family-feeling livery community alongside the breeding operation. It stands the five-gaited stallion Pan vom Vindstadir, who was presented in the breeding assessment at the 2019 World Championships in Berlin. German- and Icelandic-bred sale horses — geldings, mares including in-foal mares, and stallions, unbacked or backed — are offered directly from the farm, with an emphasis on matching horse and rider in person.
Pensionstal Hoekzema is a livery yard at Delleweg in Loppersum, in the Eemsdelta area of Groningen. The stable presents itself as the friendliest and most sociable livery yard in the north, with the welfare of the horse coming first. Horses are kept in roomy stalls with group turnout on pasture through the summer and daily group turnout in winter. The yard has no separate website and publishes its news through its Facebook and Instagram pages.
De Menterwolderuiters is a Dutch riding association and pony club at Nieuwolda in eastern Groningen, founded in 1973 and around a hundred members strong. It teaches riding on association horses or on members' own horses and runs vaulting lessons on Saturdays. The club owns its facility, with stabling, an indoor school, an outdoor arena and a clubhouse, and lets stalls to members. Internal competitions at F level, riding camps and children's parties fill out the year for recreational and competitive riders of all ages.
Hippisch Centrum Proostmeer is an equestrian centre at Wagenborgen in Groningen, started in 2020 by Henk Boonstra alongside the family dairy farm and now a full horse business in its own right. The centre offers livery for privately owned horses and rearing for youngstock, with published tariffs and accommodation aimed at owners who want their horse well cared for. It breeds its own dressage horses from quality mares and brings the young horses on itself. Riding lessons and horse-related courses are run in partnership with instructor Marian Staal, who uses the centre as her base. Horses bred and produced at the centre are offered for sale, and visitors are welcome to come and look round.
Manege Biessum is an FNRS-affiliated riding centre on the edge of the historic terp village of Biessum at Delfzijl in Groningen. It teaches horse and pony riding in group lessons and gives private tuition in jumping and dressage, as well as carriage-driving lessons. The facility has two indoor schools, two floodlit outdoor arenas, stabling for around seventy horses and ponies, a wash bay, a solarium and some thirteen hectares of grazing, and it takes livery horses. The yard breaks horses to saddle and to harness, guides buyers through purchases, and runs a pony team playing horseball. Its stalhouderij hires out carriages, wedding coaches and a horse tram.
Stal Bakker is an equestrian business in Zijldijk in the Groningen province of the Netherlands. Having wound down its riding-school activities, the yard now operates as a livery stable, offering stabling and daily care for owners' horses. It also trades horses and runs a small breeding programme alongside the livery side. The team publishes references from clients and photographs of the yard on its website.
Gestüt Stiekema is a breeding and rearing yard in Edewecht-Jeddeloh, East Frisia, run by Marcus Stiekema. The business specialises in raising young horses on around 70 hectares of pasture, managing broodmares through the covering season and standing stallions at its own stallion station. Owners can send mares for breeding management and foaling, and place youngstock in age-matched groups for balanced development. Advice on matings using internationally proven bloodlines is part of the service.
Der Buscheberger Hof is an equestrian yard established in 2021 on the Elbe in the Lüneburg district. It teaches riders in both private and group lessons and takes horses in for schooling (Beritt) as well as rehabilitation work. Horses are kept in boxes with paddocks, and the yard has a riders' lounge and its own small saddlery and riding-wear counter. The team also runs a quarterly "Center of Competence" event series, an annual riding tour and its own tournaments and gatherings.
Eichenhof is an equestrian yard at Altenebstorf in the Lüneburg Heath, run by Tanja Schulz. It offers livery for horses together with a riding school that teaches on its own school horses, plus hacking out into the surrounding heath. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a floodlit 20 x 60 m dressage arena, a 1,200 m2 grass jumping field, a round pen, wash box and solarium. A small petting-zoo corner makes the yard welcoming for families.
Braaklander Hof is a family-run breeding and riding yard in Neerstedt near Dötlingen with more than twenty years of experience breeding German Riding Ponies and Alt-Oldenburger horses under the Braaklander prefix. Their horses are bred for good temperament combined with performance and are used in dressage, jumping, cross-country and driving. Alongside breeding, the yard offers riding instruction from lunge and seat lessons through to classical dressage and jumping training, a pony school for children, and young-horse education. Horses are also boarded on the farm, and homebred stock is offered for sale.
Ausbildungsstall Wiesner is a dressage training yard at Wildeshausen in Lower Saxony run by Oliver Wiesner. Training plans are built around the individual horse, with the emphasis on trust and clear communication rather than drilling. The yard offers full livery coordinated with vet, osteopath and farrier, private lessons, competition preparation, lungeing in dialogue, groundwork, free jumping, pole work, track work and loading training. School horses are available for riders without their own horse, and clinics run regularly.
Pferde auf Uhlenborg is a livery yard and riding school at Dörverden in Lower Saxony, run by Andrea Kleinmeier. Horses are kept on a large paddock trail, an allergy-friendly trail or in open stabling, with quality forage available around the clock. Teaching follows the academic art of riding, both in hand and under saddle, in private lessons on the owner's horse or a school horse and in group courses, clinics and training weekends. The yard also has an indoor school and training grounds, a salt chamber and a solarium.
Jungpferdeaufzucht und -pension Ostermann is a young-horse rearing and boarding operation in Dunum, Lower Saxony, run by Gitte and Hanke Ostermann. The farm specializes in raising young horses, offers boarding for horses of all ages, and provides training for both horse and rider. Facilities include turnout paddocks and dressage-oriented training for owners looking to further their horse's education. The Ostermann family combines decades of horsemanship experience with personalized care for every horse in their charge.
Beningshof is a horse boarding facility (Pferdepension) in Heiligenloh, near Drentwede in Lower Saxony, Germany, run by Sandra Deumel. Horses are cared for with free-choice hay or haylage and turned out on spacious pastures, split into two boarding groups: the Waldgruppe (open stables with a paddock trail, geldings only) and the Sandgruppe (paddock boxes), both on full board. The yard features a bright 20x40m indoor arena, a matching outdoor arena, and a wellness area with a salt chamber, solarium, vibration plate, and wash stall, plus scenic hacking trails nearby. Guest horses are welcome by the day, and the property also offers guest rooms for visitors.
Reiterhof Gründeich is a family-run riding yard in Holtgast, in the East Frisian region of Lower Saxony near the North Sea coast, operated by Eva Albers and her team since 2009. The yard offers riding lessons with its own school horses, boarding for privately owned horses, and therapy horses, all within a deliberately open and family-friendly atmosphere. It is part of a wider holiday operation offering nine vacation apartments, so guests can combine a North Sea family holiday with riding and time around horses. Visitors can reach the riding side of the business by phone, email or WhatsApp.
Reiterhof Petersburg is a riding yard in Westeraccum on the East Frisian North Sea coast of Lower Saxony, run by owner Mona Blonn. The yard offers qualified riding instruction for children, with lessons tailored to different ages and skill levels. It also keeps horses at the property, offering a gallery of yard life and a published price list for lessons on its website. The rural coastal setting makes it a popular option for local families looking for a small, personal riding school.
Hof Dohren is a small, family-run horse and pony boarding facility in Dohren, near Tostedt in Lower Saxony, run by owners Regina and Helmut Behrend. Boarders are kept in indoor stalls with a seasonal turnout routine: twelve hours of stall time and twelve hours of paddock access in winter, with full pasture grazing in summer. The yard includes a covered grooming area, a grass riding arena, a horse walker/movement hall and a tack room. All boarded horses must be vaccinated against tetanus, influenza and herpes, and space is offered on a limited, first-come basis.
Hof Bramlage is a horse breeding and boarding stud (Pensionsgestüt) run by Norbert Bramlage in Dinklage-Bünne, in the Oldenburger Münsterland region of Lower Saxony. The farm stands its own breeding stallions (Hengste) and offers boarding places for privately owned horses, together with events held on the yard. It combines stud and stallion management with full-service livery in one of Germany's traditional sport-horse breeding areas.
Reitstall Dettum is a riding stable run by Janina Paul in Dettum, Germany, between the Elm and Asse hills, under the motto "Riding between Elm and Asse". The stable offers riding lessons for all ages, kindergarten and school programs, day trips, school excursion weeks, and birthday celebrations, alongside horse boarding. It also runs an inhalation therapy box for horses and provides vacation apartments and motorhome parking on site for visiting guests. Visitors can drop by during posted visiting hours Tuesday through Friday afternoons.
Islandpferdehof Gustur is a boarding facility for Icelandic horses in Monchevahlberg near Dettum, Germany, nestled between the Elm and Asse hills close to Braunschweig, Wolfenbuttel, and Wolfsburg. The farm offers individualized, personal care for Icelandic horses in a small, close-knit setting with extensive riding terrain in the surrounding countryside. It brings together Icelandic-horse owners and enthusiasts in a family-style riding community centered on shared riding trips and horse care. The historic farm buildings combine with modern facilities to create a welcoming base for Icelandic-horse fans in the region.
Reitstall Hofer is a private equestrian boarding stable in Heinfeld, Deinste, in the Stade district of Lower Saxony, run by Hans-Georg Hofer. Established in 1997-1998, the yard has operated for over 25 years and offers full-board boarding (Vollpension) with paddock boxes designed for good air quality and natural light. The small, rural facility has capacity for around 25 horses and includes a riding arena and stall complex. Horse welfare is stated as the operation's top priority.
