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Sattlerarbeiten Volker Peters is a leather workshop in Großheide, East Frisia, with more than twenty years of experience in equestrian saddlery. The workshop repairs, alters and hand-makes tack and bridlework for horse and rider. It also produces custom dog collars, harnesses and leads, and handles leather upholstery work for cars and motorcycle seats. One-off leather gifts and promotional items are made to order.
The Reit- und Fahrverein Westerende is a riding and driving club at Großheide in East Frisia. Its grounds hold indoor schools, a horse walker and a competition arena, together with a clubhouse canteen for members. Riding takes place across vaulting, show jumping and dressage under the club's own riding and vaulting instructors. The club keeps its own horses and publishes an arena timetable, an event calendar and a picture gallery for members.
Sara Tadken is a licensed veterinarian running a mobile chiropractic practice for horses from Wardenburg near Oldenburg. She works within roughly a fifty-kilometre radius, visiting horses at their own yards. The focus is on picking up movement disorders early, relieving pain and supporting soundness and performance, with chiropractic applied on a veterinary diagnostic basis. Dogs are treated on request.
Pueblo-Lindo is a small equestrian farm run by Susanne Gläßer at Falsbult near Großenkneten, inside a protected landscape between two nature reserves. The yard boards horses and has a particular focus on retirement livery for older horses that need a quiet place to age well. Alongside boarding it offers horsemanship instruction and guided trail rides, and is registered as a Wanderreitstation for riders travelling through. Holiday programmes for foster children are also run on the farm.
Gestüt Kastanienhof is a pony stud at Sage-Haast near Großenkneten in Lower Saxony, run by Julia and Timo Coldewey and breeding ponies since 1968. The yard combines stallion keeping, an insemination station with its own modern laboratory, a training operation and a sales business. Its stated aim is performance-ready and genuinely child-friendly ponies. Training covers lungeing, backing and competition preparation for the stud's own and for clients' horses and ponies, and livery places are available. Fresh and frozen semen from the station's stallions can be ordered online.
Mobile Stutenbesamung Anna Beck is a travelling mare-insemination service based at Döhlen near Großenkneten in the Oldenburg district. Anna Beck is a trained veterinary technician and a certified equine insemination specialist, and works alongside the mare owner own vet. Mares are inseminated with fresh semen at their home yard, seven days a week by appointment, which spares the mare a journey during her cycle. Travel within ten kilometres is included in the flat fee, with a per-kilometre charge beyond that and surcharges at weekends and on public holidays.
Aktivstall Steinloge is an open active-stable livery yard at Glane near Großenkneten in the Oldenburg region. Horses live in a mixed herd and move continuously between feeding stations, shelters and several watering points, with roughage available around the clock and computer-controlled concentrate feeders. Turnout is in mixed groups, and the yard is open to riders of every discipline and age. Shared facilities and social spaces are a deliberate part of the concept, so the yard has a strong community feel.
El Thayeba is a straight Egyptian Arabian stud at Großenkneten in Lower Saxony, breeding without interruption since 1971. Run as a family enterprise by Cornelia Tauschke, it has kept its own foundation mare and stallion lines for more than fifty years. Its horses trace to Egyptian bloodlines and carry the El Thay prefix, and foals are offered for sale from the programme. The stud also hosts open days and gatherings for breeders and enthusiasts from Germany and abroad.
Pferdephysiotherapie Ostfriesland is a mobile physiotherapy practice for horses and dogs run by Andrea Höfling, a DIPO-qualified equine physiotherapist and manual therapist. Treatments include manual therapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, stress-point massage, dry needling, laser frequency therapy, magnetic field therapy, Amplimed and respiratory therapy. Rehabilitation and conditioning work is supported with a Dipo trainer. She covers East Frisia, the Frisian islands, the Ammerland, northern Emsland and western Cuxland, travelling further by arrangement, and also teaches courses.
Reitsportsattlerei LUX is a saddlery in Großefehn, East Frisia, run by trained saddler Francis Emily Lux. The business builds custom-fitted saddles for dressage, jumping and eventing and brings trial saddles to the customer's own yard for fitting. Existing saddles are checked, adjusted, reflocked and cared for, and loan saddles cover the roughly ten-week production time of a new one. A saddle bench in the workshop allows trial rides, and the saddlery also runs workshops for saddle fitters and an online shop. After fourteen years in the trade it serves more than 360 yards across north-west Germany.
PIANOVA Reitakademie is a riding academy in the Großefehn moorland of East Frisia, run by Michael Sund. It offers riding courses and training for horse and rider, with an arena on site and long trails through the surrounding countryside for hacking out. A breeding stallion stands at the yard. Riders can stay on the premises in one of the holiday apartments or houses, and the academy runs parallel programmes for musicians, particularly pianists.
Der Gulfhof is a family-run horse breeding farm in the middle of East Frisia, about 30 km from the North Sea coast, trading as Pferdezucht Köhne/Wolfert. Built around a historic Gulfhaus farmstead, it breeds Hanoverian and Oldenburg sport horses with a particular focus on show jumpers out of performance-tested mare lines. The yard has video-monitored foaling boxes, a small training hall, a lunging ring and a floodlit outdoor arena, and the horses live on six hectares of pasture plus summer marsh grazing on the coast. Foals, young horses, riding horses and broodmares are offered for sale. Great emphasis is placed on temperament and rideability, with every foal handled daily and exposed to everyday stimuli from the start.
Drum Horses und Clydesdales von Moorlage, trading as Tinkerhengste Moorlage, is a heavy-horse stud in Großefehn in the heart of East Frisia. The yard breeds Drum Horses and Clydesdales and stands its own stallions at a licensed covering station. It offers stud service to outside mares, rearing of young stallions, and the sale of homebred horses. Each stallion has its own page documenting pedigree and offspring.
Pferdepension Möwenhof is a horse boarding yard in Großefehn, East Frisia, set on around seven hectares between the resorts of Timmel, Wiesmoor and Westgroßefehn. The yard runs a movement-stable concept and keeps horses in large herds with year-round turnout. Its speciality is convalescent care: the mild North Sea coastal climate and the stable layout make it a known address for horses with respiratory disease, allergies, laminitis, arthrosis, Cushing, EMS, tendon injuries or behavioural problems. Healthy horses and retirees are equally welcome, and daily medication and individual care are part of the service.
Tiergesundheits-Praxis Soujon is a veterinary practice in Groß Oesingen, Lower Saxony, founded in 1954 and run today by Dr. Anja and Otto Soujon. Equine medicine is a core focus alongside small-animal surgery, with the practice also treating livestock and birds. Services include ultrasound diagnostics, osteosynthesis, emergency and surgical care. The practice additionally offers physiotherapy and aqua therapy for animals in rehabilitation.
Pferdehof TriConia is a livery yard on the Birkenhof at Groß Ippener in Lower Saxony, set between wide pastures and the Siekwald forest. Horses can be kept in boxes opening directly onto the light-filled indoor arena, in paddock boxes with generous outdoor runs, or in small-group open stables. Large summer pastures and big winter paddocks support species-appropriate turnout year round. Since February 2024 the yard has operated as a self-care (Selbstversorger) stable. It is run by TriCon GmbH.
Reitstall Siek is a long-established livery yard run by the Tykac family at Stuhr, between Bremen and Delmenhorst on the edge of the Wildeshauser Geest. Horses are kept on full board in indoor, outdoor and paddock boxes, and the stables open directly onto the large indoor school so working-in is quick and easy. The site also has outdoor dressage and jumping arenas, a round pen, a lunging tent, a cross-country course and a gallop track, all surrounded by woods and meadows. Clinics and social fixtures such as group hacks, Kohlfahrten and Easter fires are part of yard life.
Dr. Elke Reiter runs a mobile holistic animal practice from Gronau-Heinum in Lower Saxony, treating horses alongside dogs and cats. A doctorate-holding biologist and certified Tierheilpraktikerin, she works mainly on house calls so animals can be treated without the stress of travel. Her methods include TCVM acupuncture, laser and magnetic-field therapy, homeopathy, phytotherapy, mycotherapy, aromatherapy and leech therapy, backed by laboratory diagnostics. Physiotherapy and osteopathy are offered for horses as well as small animals, and the practice publishes a dedicated section on equine indications. She also runs seminars for owners and colleagues.
The Good Farrier is a mobile farriery service based at Burgwedel in the Hanover region, run by Tobias Günther. He came to the trade from an industrial background after developing an interest in equine biomechanics and qualified as a state-certified farrier. The service covers barefoot trimming, conventional shoeing and orthopaedic shoeing worked out for the individual horse. Each horse is assessed and discussed with the owner before a shoeing plan is chosen, and visits are made to the horse's own yard.
Roschen Agrarhandel is a family-run agricultural trading business in Grasberg, north of Bremen, supplying roughage across northern Germany. Its core products are hay and straw for horses and other livestock, alongside silage and specialist mixtures. Straw is supplied both as forage and as bedding, with regional delivery organised from the yard. The firm is a member of the German association of roughage, forage and peat traders.
Minishettys vom Dannbarg is a small hobby breeding operation for Miniature Shetland ponies at Grasberg near Bremen, run by Janet and Günter Recker. The stud concentrates on ponies under 87 cm and keeps its own breeding mares, stallions and youngstock. Foals and young ponies are offered for sale directly from the farm. Animal-friendly, species-appropriate keeping is the stated priority, and visitors are welcome by prior appointment.
Schlobohms-Hof is a small breeding and youngstock farm at Grasberg in Lower Saxony run by Cord and Karina Schlobohm. The farm breeds Alt-Oldenburger horses on a deliberately small scale and publishes information on the breed and on its previous foal crops. It also takes in young horses for rearing, with places offered for yearling fillies and, seasonally, for colt foals. Horses bred on the farm are offered for sale from time to time.
ISHOF is an Icelandic-horse yard at Huxfeld between Grasberg and Fischerhude, north of Bremen, run by the Thordarson family. It combines a riding school with boarding, schooling and horse sales, keeping its horses on large pastures and in open stables. Riding lessons, courses and holiday clinics are offered for children and adults, and trail riding through the surrounding countryside is part of the daily routine. The yard also stands breeding stallions and regularly has horses available for sale.
Tierarztpraxis Geng is a mixed veterinary practice in the north-eastern Harz region, formed in 2019 from three former practices and now working across two sites at Goslar-Hahndorf and Seesen-Rhueden. The team treats horses, farm livestock and small animals, combining routine care with in-house diagnostics. Equipment on site includes digital X-ray, ultrasound, endoscopy, general anaesthesia and dental treatment, and patients can be admitted for inpatient care. Appointments are scheduled to keep waiting times short, and a 24-hour emergency line covers clients outside consulting hours.
