2,641 businesses
Eileen Langer combines horse training with saddlery from her base at Nahrendorf in Lower Saxony. The training side (Beritt) centres on starting and schooling young horses under saddle. The saddlery side covers saddle fitting and correction, adjusting existing saddles to the individual horse and rider. Both parts of the business are run as a craft-led, hands-on operation.
Hof Landey is a pedagogical and therapeutic Icelandic-horse yard at Pommoissel in the Göhrde area of Lower Saxony, run by qualified riding instructor and equine therapist Dorothea Tomaschek. It teaches children and young people, combining riding with groundwork, horse care and theory. Formats range from weekly group lessons graded by ability to intensive two-day monthly blocks and riding camps with twice-daily riding. Holiday accommodation on the farm is available for visiting families.
The Reit- und Fahrverein Dahlenburg e.V. is a riding and driving club in the heart of the Lüneburg Heath, founded in 1924 and now more than a hundred years old. It puts on a varied calendar of events for riders of every age and standard, including the Dahlenburger Reitertage dressage and jumping tournaments held on the grounds at Nahrendorf. A traditional autumn hunt ride is one of the club's best-loved fixtures. Training and further education for members run through the season.
Mainstreetstable is a western riding and livery yard at Müden an der Aller on the edge of the Südheide. Instruction is given in western riding as private lessons, in groups, or as training with the rider's own horse. Livery is offered as half or full board, with guest boxes and an allergy-friendly option, and trekking riders passing through can stable overnight. The yard sets out to give horses species-appropriate keeping, paying close attention to bedding, forage quality and turnout. Guided hacks through the Südheide and children's birthday parties round out the programme.
Westernranch Hahnenhorn is a small western-style yard at Hahnenhorn near Müden an der Aller, in the southern Lüneburg Heath. It runs as a Wanderreitstation, offering day stabling in an open barn to riders travelling through the region. Silke Stange also teaches horse communication and natural horsemanship in individual sessions worked entirely from the ground. Guest rooms, canoe trips on the Aller and Oker and campfire evenings round out a stay, and dogs are welcome.
ProHuf is a farriery partnership based at Müden an der Aller in Lower Saxony, trading under the motto of simply healthy hooves. The business specialises in orthopaedic and therapeutic shoeing, preventing and treating hoof disease with modern shoe designs rather than standard shoeing alone. Its farriers work with owners and veterinarians on horses with lameness, hoof imbalance and long-running hoof problems. Routine trimming and shoeing for sound horses is part of the service as well.
Zum Thielen-Hof is a family farm near Müden an der Aller that keeps boarding horses alongside its agricultural work. Horses live outdoors in herd groups the whole year on around 17 hectares of pasture, with climate-controlled stabling available in extreme weather. Boxes are cleaned daily and each horse is fed individually, while young horses are kept together in an open-stall group. The farm also runs a small hobby breeding programme producing up to four foals a year.
Reitverein Pferdefreunde Müden u. U. e.V. is a riding club in Müden an der Aller, Lower Saxony. It maintains riding halls and outdoor arenas for its members, governed by its own hall and arena rules. The club runs clinics for members and stages the annual Reitturnier Müden/Aller. Social fixtures such as Halloween speed games sit alongside the sporting calendar.
RedwoodTrails is an extreme and mountain trail park at Müden an der Aller in Lower Saxony, built for riders who want to school their horses over natural and man-made obstacles. Visitors can book free training sessions on the course or join structured clinics covering trail work, fire training, ground driving and liberty work. Guest boxes are available so horses can stay over for multi-day courses. The park is run by Verena and Joachim Lock and is open to riders of every discipline.
Gestüt Merzdorf is a stud and riding yard at Müden an der Aller in Lower Saxony, led by Gabriele Merzdorf. She is a Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin FN with a Trainer A licence and has won up-and-coming classes and competed to dressage class S on horses she trained herself. The yard breeds and sells horses with strong pedigrees and gives riding lessons on the premises. Livery is available in attractive indoor and outdoor boxes. A riding club is attached to the stud.
Aktivstall im Allertal is an active-stable livery yard at Gerstenbüttel in the Aller valley, running since 2008. Horses are kept as one herd across more than 2,500 square metres of separated functional areas on the HIT Aktivstall system, so they move continuously between resting, feeding and watering zones. Automatic concentrate and roughage stations dispense small, individually configured rations around the clock, and adjoining pasture is available in season. The yard takes on the full daily care of the horses so that owners can spend their time riding and handling rather than mucking out.
Claudia Susann Buchholz runs a mobile animal naturopathy practice in Hanstedt in the Nordheide, treating horses, dogs and cats at home or at the yard. Her methods include bioresonance, homeopathy, Australian bush flower essences, Reiki applications and Reiki training, and energetic spinal alignment. She also offers nutritional counselling and animal communication. Appointments are arranged by phone or email.
Tierärztliches Gesundheitszentrum Munster is a veterinary health centre in Munster in the Lüneburg Heath, run by Dr. Carsten Brauer, Iris Brauer and Dr. Lothar Brauer. It combines a small-animal practice with a large-animal ambulance that covers horses and farm livestock on visits to yards and farms. The centre has inpatient facilities and intensive-care capacity backed by modern medical technology. A canine blood transfusion service is also offered.
Reiterverein Alvern e.V. is a riding club near Munster in the Lüneburg Heath, founded in 1973 after operating as a section of the neighbouring Soltau club. Its show ground at the Heidberg has hosted regional and state championships for juniors and young riders. The club expanded the site in 2002 with a purpose-built show building housing jump material, catering and the entry office, followed by a new judges' tower in 2007. Youth development is its central concern: talented riders up to the age of 16 are taken into structured development groups each year. Club riders have competed successfully in both jumping and dressage up to advanced level and at German championships.
Dr. Tina Vortherms runs a veterinary practice devoted exclusively to equine dentistry, based at Großenrode near Moringen in southern Lower Saxony. The practice carries out dental examinations and corrective treatment, and manages the problems that arise while a young horse sheds its milk teeth. Specialist work includes the diagnosis and management of EOTRH. Treatment intervals are set individually for each horse rather than on a fixed schedule, and the practice publishes educational material on equine dental health.
Großtierpraxis Moringen is a veterinary practice for horses, farm livestock and hobby animals based in Moringen in southern Lower Saxony. The team of four vets around Dr. Josef Diekgerdes and Wjatscheslaw Satorius combines preventive care with diagnostics and treatment, backed by regular continuing education and modern equipment. Horses, cattle, sheep and pigs are all treated, and the practice keeps a mobile emergency line open outside consulting hours. Telephone consulting hours were introduced to manage demand, so calls are best made within those windows.
Mit Pferden sein is a horsemanship school at Moringen in southern Lower Saxony, founded by the biologist Sabine Birmann together with Dan Birmann. Rather than a training method it teaches an approach built on perception, reading equine body language, facial expression and behaviour so that horse and human can communicate on equal terms. The programme runs as day seminars, foundation courses, specialist seminars and intensive clinics, in German and in English, supported by video and telephone consultations. The associated Ippikon-Verlag publishes the school textbooks and working material.
TGU Garthe, short for Tiergestützter Unterricht, is run by Sabine Garthe in Moormerland, East Frisia, and works with children through riding pedagogy rather than technical riding tuition alone. Sessions include play-based riding for children and young people, therapeutic riding for those with special needs, a pony club and relaxation riding. Group programmes are offered to schools and other institutions, along with children's birthday parties and hacks. Natural, species-appropriate handling of the horses underpins everything on offer, and courses also run with VFD Ostfriesland.
Equimove Ostfriesland is a mobile osteopathy and physiotherapy practice run by Tatjana de Buhr across East Frisia. Horses are the main caseload, treated with manual and fascial therapy, dry needling, kinesiology taping and leech therapy. Dogs, cats and cattle are also seen within a service radius of roughly 25 kilometres. Equikinetics and dual-activation groundwork are offered as follow-on training to consolidate treatment results.
Tierarztpraxis Emsdiek in Oldersum, Moormerland, describes itself as a mixed practice by conviction, caring for pets and grazing animals alike — cattle, horses, sheep and New World camelids. The equine service covers preventive herd management with vaccinations, parasite control and advice on housing and feeding, internal medicine including colic, respiratory, endocrine and eye conditions, and both surgical and conservative treatment such as wound care, castrations, laminitis therapy and hoof abscesses. The practice is run as a partnership by Ludwig Koch and Frederick Schuchmann and offers surgery and acute care from its own premises. Consulting hours run Monday to Friday.
Equigampo is a mobile riding-instruction and equine therapy business run by Andrea Kotulla-Möhlmann across East Frisia. Lessons follow a three-part teaching model covering theory, groundwork and ridden work, with the horse's health and correct movement as the starting point. Alongside teaching she offers equine physiotherapy and osteopathy for horses that need hands-on treatment. Clinics and courses are run at client yards throughout the northern districts she covers.
Reitverein Petkum Oldersum e.V. is an East Frisian riding club founded in 1954 and based at Oldersum in Moormerland, with around 180 members. It teaches riding on club school horses and has both indoor and outdoor arenas for lessons and training. The hall can also be hired for use by groups. Its annual tournament is one of the larger fixtures in the region, drawing roughly 800 entries.
Ricardo Tabaczek Sportpferde is an equestrian services business run by Pia and Ricardo Tabaczek at their yard in Tergast, Moormerland, East Frisia. The team takes horses in for professional schooling (Beritt) and produces sport horses on its own facility of arenas and stabling. Horses are presented for sale with photos and video, and a "Find My Horse" service sources suitable animals for buyers. References from client riders are published on the site.
Andreas Klinker is a sport horse breeder at Molbergen in the Cloppenburg district of Lower Saxony, working to the principle of putting the best to the best. The operation keeps a band of broodmares and presents each year's foal crop, its young mares and its young colts individually. Breeding results and the competition records of horses bred here are documented on the yard's own pages. Foals, youngstock and broodmares are regularly offered for sale.
