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Riding club

IPRV Lingen-Emsland e.V.

Lingen (Ems), Germany

IPRV Lingen-Emsland e.V. is an Icelandic-horse riding and breeding club based in Lingen (Ems) in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. The club stages tournaments and runs training courses and clinics that are open to members and non-members alike. It supports both the sport and the breeding side of the Icelandic horse, with a dedicated youth section and a leisure-riding programme. Social events such as scavenger hunts round out the calendar, and members contribute helper hours towards running the club.

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EQUIVA Lingen

Lingen (Ems), Germany

EQUIVA is one of the largest equestrian retail chains in Germany, and this is its branch on Rheiner Straße in Lingen (Ems). The shop carries riding clothing for women, men and children, riding boots, helmets and body protectors, alongside saddlery, rugs, grooming kit and stable equipment. More than 190 brands are stocked across the chain, plus a full horse feed and supplement range. Staff advise in person on fit and product choice, and online orders can be collected and returned in store.

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Traumpferd

Lingen (Ems), Germany

Traumpferd is an equestrian boutique in Lingen (Ems), trading online and at shows since 2016. It carries premium riding apparel for women and men — show jackets, breeches, shirts and jackets — alongside horse equipment such as fly veils, rugs, stirrups and saddle pads. Helmets from Samshield and KEP Italia can be configured to order, and air vests are stocked for cross-country safety. The shop also offers embroidery, gift vouchers and an outlet section, with DHL dispatch in one to three working days.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Lingen und Umgebung e.V.

Lingen (Ems), Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Lingen und Umgebung e.V. is a riding and driving club at Auguststraße in Lingen (Ems), Lower Saxony. It runs regular jumping and dressage training, a pony league and school-horse programme for young riders, and an active vaulting section with its own training and competitions. The club has its own indoor arena and grounds and stages a full calendar of tournaments including the Lingen show week and a Hubertus hunt ride. It is celebrating a club anniversary in 2026.

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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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Franzi's Ponyhof

Lingen (Ems), Germany

Dein Ponyversum (formerly Franzi's Ponyhof) is a pony farm in Lingen in the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, built entirely around children from the age of three upwards. The yard runs riding lessons, therapeutic riding, guided hacks and holiday riding camps, and hosts children's birthday parties. Regular horse-contact programmes are run in partnership with local kindergartens and schools. The stated aim is happy, free and self-determined children and animals, and children with disabilities are expressly welcome. A small online shop rounds out the offering.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie Lea Abe

Lindhorst, Germany

Pferdeosteopathie Lea Abe is a mobile equine practice based at Lindhorst in Lower Saxony. Lea Marie Abe treats horses osteopathically and physiotherapeutically, using manual techniques to restore comfortable, balanced movement. Treatments are carried out at the horse's own yard within a defined catchment area, with rates published in advance. Each horse is assessed individually before a treatment plan is agreed.

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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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Tack & equestrian shop

BeDogA GmbH

Lindern (Oldenburg), Germany

BeDogA is an online equestrian and pet-supply retailer based in Lindern, Lower Saxony. Its horse range covers saddles and saddle accessories, bridles, bits, leg protection, headcollars, rugs, grooming products and feed supplements. Rider equipment includes breeches, jackets, competition wear, helmets, body protectors, boots, gloves and spurs. A smaller dog range and a municipal-equipment line are carried alongside the equestrian catalogue.

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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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Equine therapy

Katinka Krages - Osteopathie für Pferde

Lilienthal, Germany

Katinka Krages runs an equine osteopathy practice in Lilienthal near Bremen. She treats horses with gentle manual techniques, working towards better rideability, soundness and general wellbeing rather than at a single presenting complaint. Treatment ranges from a single session to longer Happy Horse and Happy Champion programmes. She also gives online training and consultations and teaches courses in biomechanically correct riding.

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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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Tack & equestrian shop

Hans-Hermann Poppe Reitsportservice Poppe

Lilienthal, Germany

R.S.P. Reitsportservice Poppe is an equestrian retailer based at Lilienthal near Bremen, selling clothing and equipment for horse and rider. The range covers competition shirts and blouses, breeches, gloves, jackets, boots and chaps as well as saddles, bridles, bits, boots, bandages and rugs from brands including Equiline, Kingsland, Trust, Freejump, KEP, EGO7, Veredus, Horka and Dyon. A fitted sales vehicle takes the current collections directly to shows and yards, so customers can try and buy on the spot. Textiles can be embroidered to order with club or stable logos.

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Amrei Timm

Lilienthal, Germany

Reiten im Grünen is Amrei Timm's riding school in the Hollerland countryside on the edge of Bremen. Qualified as a Trainer C for competitive riding, she teaches beginners, returning riders and more advanced riders across all age groups. Lessons are given on the yard's own horses, with the emphasis on schooling horse and rider together. The yard also runs seasonal riding activities and offers alongside the regular lesson programme.

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Stud farm

Dr. Christina Beuke

Lilienthal, Germany

Pferdezucht Beuke is a private dressage-horse breeding operation run by Dr. Christina Beuke at Lilienthal near Bremen. The stud is built around the Longola mare line, which has produced internationally successful sport horses and premium broodmares. A small band of mares is bred each year to leading dressage stallions and the resulting foals are offered for sale. Considerable emphasis is placed on early handling and education so that every foal gets a calm, correct start in life.

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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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RFV PCH Dörnten e. V.

Liebenburg, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein PCH Dörnten e.V. is a riding and driving club in Dörnten, part of Liebenburg in Lower Saxony. It teaches riding across all age groups and also runs carriage driving. Youth work is a focus, with horse-knowledge sessions and programmes for children alongside clinics for members. An orientation ride, social events and celebrations fill out the year, and fair treatment of the horse sits at the centre of the club's work.

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Tack & equestrian shop

Giesecke

Liebenburg, Germany

Sattlerei Giesecke is a master saddler workshop in Liebenburg-Dörnten in the Harz foreland, working to order since 1994. Peter Giesecke builds western saddles, English saddles, therapy saddles and handicap saddles as one-off pieces, including saddle trees shaped to the individual horse. The workshop also fits and reflocks existing saddles, makes custom panels and pads, and carries out repairs from minor stitching to full rebuilds. Cleaning and leather restoration round out the service.

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Reit- u. Fahrverein Lengerich u. U. e.V.

Lengerich, Germany

The Reit- und Fahrverein Lengerich und Umgegend e.V. is the riding and driving club for Lengerich and the surrounding villages in the Emsland. It runs its own facility at Erlenweg and organises tournaments for members and visiting riders. Since 2024 the club has been carrying out a major refurbishment of the site, supported by local sponsors and partners. News, entry forms and event downloads are published on the club website.

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