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Martin Boomgaarden is a hoof orthopaedist (Huforthopäde) based in Hesel, East Frisia. He practises Huforthopädie, an approach in which the hoof is corrected gradually so that it grows out gently for the horse's joints, tendons and ligaments, with each barefoot horse assessed individually. A new website is currently being built; appointments and enquiries go directly by phone or email.
Reit- und Fahrverein Herzlake e.V. is a riding and driving club in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. Its members ride across several disciplines, with dressage, show jumping and western riding all represented, and a pony league section for the youngest competitors. The club runs its own riding facility and offers stabling to members under a standard livery agreement. It organises tournaments and training days and has a dedicated youth officer looking after junior members.
TimpeShop Reitsport & More is an owner-run equestrian retailer in Löningen, in the Hasetal region of Lower Saxony. The shop specialises in driving harness — standard, special and deluxe lines for single and pair turnouts — together with individual harness components. It also stocks riding pads and Shetland pony saddles, horse rugs and headcollars. Alongside retail it carries out leather repairs and blade sharpening, and ships online orders by DHL with a 14-day return window.
Daans Westerntraining is the western riding school and training operation of Daan van Wingerden in Herzlake in the Emsland, working under the motto "Im Einklang zur Harmonie". He gives riding lessons and runs clinics for western riders, working on the partnership between horse and rider rather than on drill. Lessons and course dates are published on the site along with current news from the yard, which has been rebuilt and extended since 2017. Horses are also taken in for training.
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.
Arabergestüt Hägerhof is an Arabian stud at Herzberg am Harz run by the Dill family, breeding Arabian horses since 1968 with a particular fondness for black coats. The stud stands its own breeding stallion and keeps a band of broodmares, publishing every foal crop going back two decades. Purebred Arabian breeding stock and ridden Arabians are offered for sale, alongside Quarabs, Quarter Horses, Paints and Connemaras at various ages and stages of training. On request the stud will also take in customer horses for rearing and for training under saddle, with a western riding emphasis.
Blanken Horses is a sales and training yard for dressage and show-jumping horses in Hepstedt, between Bremen and Bremervörde, run by Stefan Blanken. The business schools horses for clients up to medium and advanced level and prepares young horses for competitions and championships. It also prepares stallions and riding horses for licensings and auctions, and holds its own selection date for the Verden auction. The farm has bred horses for four generations and today has a 20x40 m indoor school, 33 boxes, a horse walker, a lunging ring, an outdoor arena and paddocks.
Sportpferde Seewald is a training and sales stable in Söhlingen near Hemslingen, Lower Saxony, run by Dirk Seewald. The yard schools young Hanoverian sport horses and presents them for sale to riders looking for their next dressage or jumping prospect. Its current sales list is published on the website with each horse's pedigree, year of birth and height. Visitors are welcome to view the facility and the horses by appointment.
HufAtelier is the hoof-care practice of Daniela Röhl, working out of Hemmoor in Lower Saxony. She offers individual hoof trimming matched to each horse rather than a fixed scheme, and keeps horses at an open stable. Her work is documented publicly with before-and-after results and client feedback. Appointments and enquiries are taken by phone or WhatsApp, and new clients are welcome.
Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferde Dr. Karsten Schreiber is an equine-only ambulatory practice based at Hemmoor, treating horses at their own yards. The service range runs from pre-purchase examinations with digital radiography through lameness diagnostics, internal medicine, ophthalmology and endoscopy to dentistry and castrations. Reproduction work includes artificial insemination with frozen semen, and the practice offers foal intensive care. Emergency and out-of-hours cover is provided for colic, injuries and difficult foalings. A chiropractic service is available through Dr. Saskia Walter.
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.
Hengststation Pape in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony, is a many-sided yard built around the breeding, training and sale of quality dressage horses. A farming operation and a band of ten to twelve of its own broodmares form the base, with roughly twenty youngsters a year raised on the farm's own land. A team of seven schools these young horses so that a varied lot of sale horses at different stages is always available, and the competition stable has taken horses from remount to Grand Prix, winning 24 medals at Bundeschampionate and world championships. A second arm of the business is the EU-approved AI stallion station, standing six stallions and shipping semen to breeders.
Der Schmied kommt is a mobile farrier service that has been shoeing horses in the Hannover district since 1990. State-certified farrier Jörg Schauzu combines his craft training with his own riding experience, fitting every horse individually rather than to a standard pattern. The service covers conventional shoeing, barefoot hoof care, hoof orthopaedics and Natural Balance shoes. Where a horse needs medical treatment, the workshop coordinates directly with the treating veterinarian. Work is carried out at the client's own yard.
Nice & Quiet is a reining horse breeding and training operation run by Lena Marie Nordhausen at Helvesiek in Lower Saxony. The yard breeds from its own broodmares and raises youngstock with reining performance in mind. Weanlings, yearlings, two- and three-year-olds and older horses are offered for sale. Horses are trained on the premises, and visitors are welcome by appointment.
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.
Reittherapie Helvesiek provides riding therapy, occupational-therapy early intervention with the horse, curative-education riding and riding lessons at Helvesiek in Lower Saxony. Its therapists are trained in both occupational therapy and riding therapy and work with children and adults on motor skills, self-confidence and emotional blocks. The horses are schooled specifically for therapy work and chosen for their calm, sensitive temperament. Sessions run on two weekday mornings and one Saturday a month and can be booked online, and a supporting association, Förderverein Reittherapie Helvesiek e.V., helps fund places for people with disabilities.
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.
Team Kiefernhof is a western riding yard near Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, run by Bettina Woitzyk. Lessons are open to anyone who likes horses, with or without a horse of their own, from nervous first-timers to leisure riders and those starting out on the show circuit. The yard also starts and schools horses, with a strong emphasis on groundwork in the round pen, on the trail course and out in the country. Quarter Horses are bred and occasionally offered for sale, and the team will help clients look for a suitable horse.
Dr. med. vet. Ralf Pellmann is a specialist equine veterinarian (Fachtierarzt für Pferde) whose practice sits at Hellwege near Bremen and has been running since 2004. His focus is the orthopaedic work-up of the equine musculoskeletal system, supported by digital radiography, ultrasound and endoscopy of the airways and stomach. Therapy options include focused shockwave treatment, platelet-rich plasma injection and class-4 laser therapy. More than twenty years of clinical experience go into lameness and performance investigations.
Gestüt Fährhof is a stud farm at Großer Fährhof near Sottrum in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district of Lower Saxony. It is held and operated by the Stiftung Gestüt Fährhof, a foundation, with Daniel Krüger as its responsible representative. The stud's website is currently being rebuilt, so its published service list is limited at present. The office keeps regular business hours and the stud can be reached by phone, fax or email. News and pictures from the farm are posted on its Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channels.
LMM is Luna Maaß's equine osteopathy practice, based at Heeslingen in the Elbe-Weser triangle. She treats horses manually for blockages, restricted movement, joint problems, back pain and lameness. The work combines osteopathic technique with equine physiotherapy and chiropractic adjustment. Appointments are made directly by phone or email and treatment is carried out at the horse's own yard.
Tierärztliche Gemeinschaftspraxis Heeslingen has served the Rotenburg (Wümme) area since 1948 and today employs a team of veterinarians across small-animal and large-animal medicine. Horses are one of the practice's core patient groups, treated alongside cattle, sheep, goats and pigs on ambulatory farm and yard visits. The Heeslingen surgery is equipped with modern diagnostic imaging and laboratory facilities, and separate waiting areas keep dogs and cats apart to reduce stress. The practice also supplies supplementary feed products, and appointments can be booked online.
Springpferde Heinsohn is a show-jumping yard in Boitzen near Heeslingen, Lower Saxony, run by Anja Heinsohn. The stable buys, schools and sells jumping horses, producing them up to advanced S*** level. Alongside the sales horses the team coaches its own students and presents horses at shows. Horses in training are looked after individually, with the current sales list and competition results published on the website.
Green Meadows Ranch is a small American Quarter Horse breeding operation at Wiersdorf near Heeslingen, midway between Hamburg and Bremen. Founded in 2006 and on its own farm since 2011, the ranch stands two of its own stallions and keeps seven to ten broodmares tracing to well-known western performance lines. Since May 2024 it has been a state-approved covering and artificial insemination station for Quarter Horses in Lower Saxony. Horses are kept in a herd year round on generous pasture, and homebred youngstock is offered for sale to leisure and competition riders alike.
