2,641 businesses
Reitstall Langemeyer is a family yard that has stood for more than 40 years in the Krähe woodland near Nienburg an der Weser. It is run by Hans-Joachim and Nadine Langemeyer together with their children Tom and Linda. The yard gives riding lessons, runs free-jumping sessions and boards horses on a facility with an indoor school and outdoor arenas. It also stages its own competitions each year.
Reitsportverein Alpheide-Nienburg e.V. is an equestrian club in the heart of Nienburg an der Weser, based on the grounds of the Zuchtgemeinschaft Rippe-Lachnit at Reiterweg 3. Children start in the lead-rein group, learning to handle and sit on a pony through play, and many go on to vaulting, which builds balance and body awareness with a partner horse. Older children and adults take riding lessons and can work towards competing. The club has been registered since 1986 and is the organiser of the Nienburger Reiterfest, a long-running show with classes up to S* level in both jumping and dressage.
Rippe - Lachnit is a sport-horse breeding partnership based at Reiterweg 3 in Nienburg an der Weser, Lower Saxony. The partnership breeds and produces German sport horses and presents its young stock on its own website. Competition results achieved by horses from the breeding programme are published alongside them. Enquiries about horses are handled directly by the partners.
moving equine is a mobile equine physiotherapy and hoof-care practice run by Charleen Klein from Adelebsen. She treats sport and leisure horses across the Göttingen, Northeim, Witzenhausen and Kassel areas with massage, stretching, manual therapy and mobilisation work. On the hoof side she offers barefoot trimming plus Goodsmith glue-on shoes and hoof boots. Individual training plans can be drawn up to support rehabilitation and conditioning.
The Horse Concept is an equine osteopathy and saddlery practice at Niederlangen in the Emsland region, run by Björn Stahl. Trained first as a physiotherapist and then as an equine osteopath, he treats horses manually and builds made-to-measure saddles for the horse and rider in front of him. Saddle fitting is backed by pressure-distribution measurement using an impression pad and saddle grid, and used saddles are also sold. Further services include rehabilitation support after injury, osteopathic pre-purchase examinations and preventive check-ups.
The Terhorst family farm at Niederlangen in the Emsland, first recorded in 1534 as the Joos Hof, has combined arable farming with horse breeding for many generations. Horses are kept on extensive land in light, airy stables and fed home-grown forage, and the farm runs a qualified breeding programme. In 2001 a veterinary practice specialising in horses was added on the farm itself. A modern indoor school and a 60 m dressage arena complete the equestrian facilities. Visitors are welcome to come and see the yard.
Ponyhof Gerdes is a pony and holiday farm at Oberlangen in the Emsland, run by Jürgen Gerdes for children and teenagers. Riding is the centre of a stay: lessons on ponies and horses, with or without a saddle, and guided hacks out from the yard. The farm has three outdoor arenas and two indoor schools, so riding carries on whatever the weather. Guests also help around the yard with its donkeys, goats, alpacas and rabbits, and ponies bred there are sometimes offered for sale.
RZG Unter dem Mühlenberge e.V. is a riding club based in Schneeren, part of Neustadt am Rübenberge in Lower Saxony. Members ride recreationally and compete regularly at regional tournaments. The club reports on its riders results and organises social gatherings through the year. It also takes part in local commemorative and community events.
mobile Tierheilpraxis Kreft is a travelling animal-naturopathy practice run by Viviane Kreft from Neustadt am Rübenberge, north-west of Hannover. Animals are seen in their own surroundings, which keeps stress down, and horses have their own consultation and treatment rates alongside small animals. The practice works with mycotherapy, targeted nutrient support, phytotherapy, acupuncture on TCM principles, local vibration therapy, effective micro-organisms and classical homeopathy. Fees follow the guidelines of the German Tierheilpraktiker association, and there is a particular focus on older animals and on palliative support.
Tierarztpraxis Mandelsloh has served Neustadt am Rübenberge for more than eighty years and has been led by Anke Janssen since 2010. Alongside small-animal clinics in Mandelsloh and Osterwald, the practice runs an ambulatory equine service that visits horses at home for everything from vaccination and colic treatment to the castration of young stallions. Broodmare work is a particular focus: swabs, cycle monitoring to time insemination, on-farm insemination and pregnancy scanning are routine, and a battery-powered portable ultrasound lets quiet mares be examined out in the paddock. A 24-hour emergency service covers equine patients, and the practice also looks after farm livestock.
Bodenarbeit mit Pferden is the mobile groundwork and horsemanship practice of Daya Dora Kriesel, based in Neustadt am Rübenberge in Lower Saxony. She teaches horse owners to communicate with their horses through body language, treating the partnership as a dance that depends on calm, clear human leadership. Lessons cover everything from basic handling and everyday care to advanced work in hand, including elements of the classical Hohe Schule. Individual sessions are taught at the client's own yard within roughly 50 km, while workshops and group seminars are offered up to about 100 km away.
Ponyparadies am Steinhuder Meer is a livery yard run by Jennifer Harenkamp and Melina Kuhlebert at Mardorf on the northern shore of the Steinhuder Meer near Hannover. Horses and ponies live in open stabling in mixed herds with hay available around the clock. The yard puts animal welfare and a settled herd first, and has riding grounds and training space on site. It also runs a sauna salt box, a therapy chamber aimed at horses with respiratory problems.
Barhuf-unterwegs is a mobile hoof-care practice run by Romyna-Isabell Mantei, covering the Hannover region from a base at Rehburg-Loccum. She trims and maintains barefoot hooves for ponies, small horses and donkeys on a four- to eight-week cycle. Hoof problems are assessed and treated with the underlying cause explained to the owner. Hoof boots are fitted and recommended as an alternative to metal shoes.
Tierärztliche Gemeinschaftspraxis Mariensee is a mixed practice near Neustadt am Rübenberge run by Dr. Wittmund and Dr. Sommerfeld, treating everything from family pets to dairy herds. Its equine service covers general horse care, mare gynaecology including ultrasound pregnancy scanning, colic treatment, standing castration of young stallions, lameness diagnostics and dental correction. An in-house laboratory gives immediate blood results, and Cryo-Pen treatment is offered for horses and small animals alike. The practice also runs an on-site veterinary pharmacy.
Tierarztpraxis Dr. Katharina Beel is a mobile mixed practice based in Esperke near Neustadt am Rübenberge, covering a service area that reaches from the Heidekreis into the Hannover region. Horses are a regular part of the caseload, including equine dental work carried out with the practice's own dental equipment. Sheep, foals and small animals are treated as well. The practice is open Monday to Thursday and Friday mornings, with an emergency line outside those hours.
Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferdephysiotherapie Sarah Aurenz is a veterinary practice for equine physiotherapy based in Neustadt am Rübenberge. It works exclusively with horses, with the veterinarian travelling to the yard by arrangement. Appointments and enquiries are handled directly by phone or email.
Tierärztliche Praxis Hof Stolzenberg is a veterinary practice at In Luttmersen near Neustadt am Rübenberge, run as a partnership by Dr. Julia Schöwerling and Julia Bollwein. A team of four veterinarians looks after horses and small animals, and the practice is well known to horse and pet owners across the Neustädter Land. Surgery hours run Monday to Friday, mornings and afternoons, and a 24-hour emergency service is maintained. The practice publishes case write-ups on its own blog, including detailed pieces on conditions such as canker of the hoof.
Gestüt Leineblick is a Hanoverian breeding operation run by the Asche family at Luttmersen near Neustadt am Rübenberge, north-west of Hannover. Breeding centres on a band of broodmares with strong jumping bloodlines, and homebred horses have been placed in young show-jumper classes and awarded the Hanoverian premium. The farm raises foals, young horses and colts through to riding age on its own pastures. Youngstock from outside owners is taken in for rearing, and livery places are offered. Each year's foals and the current broodmare band are documented on the stud's website.
Reit- und Fahrverein Schneeren 1925 e.V. is a riding and driving club in the Schneeren district of Neustadt am Rübenberge, north-west of Hannover. It runs riding-badge courses each year in which members are examined on groundwork, horse care and ridden dressage and jumping tests, and awards range from the Pferdeführerschein to riding badges RA10 to RA4. The club puts on additional training such as pole work and desensitisation clinics with visiting instructors. It stages its own tournaments and events, supported by a long list of local sponsors.
Brunnenhof Welze is a small family-run farm in the Neustädter Land, north-west of Hannover, whose particular focus is its riding school. Instruction is given to children from about five years of age and to adults, from complete beginners taught the correct seat on the lunge through to dressage and jumping up to class L. The yard also runs holiday camps in every school holiday, children's birthday parties for up to ten children, and monthly courses on changing themes. Guided hacks and carriage drives are offered, and guests can bring their own horse, with holiday apartments available on the farm.
Anna Becke works as an animal naturopath (Tierheilpraktikerin) and mobile riding instructor at Neustadt am Rübenberge near Hanover. Her therapy practice covers equine acupuncture and naturopathic treatment for horses. As a riding teacher she gives lessons on the client's own horse, including video analysis of the ride, and runs seat-training courses and weekend training days after completing a reiter-bewegen trainer qualification. She also operates a 28 x 14 m indoor school off Am Gänseberg, which riders can hire by the month, by the year or on a ten-visit card, with trailer parking and a shaded paddock on site. Arena hire is included free during a lesson booked with her.
Mühlenhof Dudensen is a trail-riding yard near Neustadt am Rübenberge, run by Anette Spitzl together with Henning and Lukas Koslowski. The farm keeps around twenty Mangalarga Marchador horses and specialises in multi-day guided rides through the countryside between the Steinhuder Meer nature park and the Lüneburg Heath. Alongside the rides it offers training for horse and rider and coaching, led by a DWA-qualified trail-ride guide. Guests are accommodated and fed on the farm, with cooking from its own herb garden and wood-fired oven.
Zuchthof Janssen is a family farm in Neuschoo in East Frisia, close to the North Sea coast, that breeds and raises Hanoverian horses. Mares are covered and their foals are raised on the farm own grassland, with youngstock kept out on the wide East Frisian pastures as they grow on. Alongside the horses the farm runs a cattle fattening operation. Photographs of the horses and the yard are published on the farm site.
Joachim Vienna is an independent farrier based in Neuschoo in East Frisia, serving horse owners across the surrounding region. His work covers standard shoeing, corrective shoeing and orthopaedic shoeing. He treats hoof care as the foundation of a sound, comfortable horse and applies the same standards to leisure horses and sport horses alike.
