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Alina Märker Performance Horses

Melle, Germany

Alina Märker Performance Horses is a western performance training business based at Rödinghausen in East Westphalia. Alina Märker takes horses in for training, building each programme around the individual horse and its rider's goals. She gives lessons on school horses, at her own facility and as a travelling instructor, and runs clinics across Europe including a regular course series at the 5B Ranch. Riders can also use the equestrian facility for their own training and course work.

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Sonnenhof Kollmeyer

Melle, Germany

Sonnenhof Kollmeyer is a family-run Icelandic horse stud set on a 280-year-old farm between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehengebirge near Melle. The yard breeds and sells Icelandic horses and offers livery, riding instruction, backing and further training. A dedicated wellness wing provides an aqua treadmill, salt-air inhalation, a vibration treadmill, solarium and BEMER therapy for horses in work or rehabilitation. Guest accommodation and a small shop round out the visit for owners and riders.

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Equine therapy

Hof Warner

Melle, Germany

Hof Warner is an equine-assisted therapy yard at Melle-Gesmold in the south of the Osnabrück region, run by Bettina Warner with a team of qualified therapists and educators. The yard offers hippotherapy, occupational therapy with the horse, curative-educational support and horse-assisted trauma pedagogy. Riding and vaulting sessions are run for people with disabilities, alongside nature and experience-based education programmes. The team also works with kindergartens and schools on projects and visits residential care homes with its ponies.

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5B Ranch GmbH

Melle, Germany

5B Ranch is a western riding yard in Rödinghausen, East Westphalia, built around reining and western horsemanship. The facility offers livery in 3 x 4 m boxes with attached paddocks, around three hectares of small-group turnout, a 25 x 50 m indoor arena on a reining surface, a drained 20 x 40 m outdoor arena and a 16 m round pen. Boxes can be rented with or without mucking out, and the indoor arena is also available to hire by outside riders. The ranch hosts weekend reining clinics taught in small groups by guest trainers, and provides wash bays, a heated rug room, tack lockers and a riders' lounge.

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Dressurstall Sandbrink GmbH

Meinersen, Germany

Dressurstall Sandbrink is a dressage training and sales stable at Päse near Meinersen, founded by Stefan Sandbrink and Dr. Kerstin Klieber. The yard schools dressage horses and licensed stallions and sells them to clients in Germany and abroad. Riding instruction is offered alongside riding holidays for guests. Facilities include a 20 x 60 m indoor school and a 20 x 60 m outdoor dressage arena, both available to hire.

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Haflingerhof Päse

Meinersen, Germany

Haflingerhof Päse is a Haflinger stud in Päse near Meinersen, where the family has bred the breed since 1968 and which Jürgen Kolodinski now runs in the second generation. The farm has extended its programme to riding ponies aimed at children, young riders and families. It stands its own stallions — the Haflingers Stilecht and St. Tropez and the riding pony Da Silva Domingo — and presents a foal crop every year. Young horses and ponies are offered for sale and the yard hosts training clinics.

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Transport / hauler

Pferdetransporte Braunschweig

Meine, Germany

Pferdetransporte Braunschweig is a horse transport service run by Nina Gräfenhan from Meine, north of Braunschweig. The business covers clinic runs, transport to competitions, permanent relocations and holiday trips with a horse. It operates under a livestock transport authorisation issued by the Gifhorn veterinary office. Bookings are handled directly by phone or through the website contact form.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Papenteich e.V.

Meine, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Papenteich e.V. is an equestrian club at Hauptstraße in Meine, in the Gifhorn district of Lower Saxony. It offers riding and a well-established vaulting section for members of all ages. The club runs dressage and jumping clinics with visiting professional trainers and stages its own riding tournaments. Its indoor arena is available to members on a published booking and duty schedule, and the club hosts school groups and social events through the year.

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Feed & supplies

Sölter's Mühle Tiernahrung GmbH

Meerbeck, Germany

Sölter's Mühle is a family-run feed mill in Meerbeck, Lower Saxony, that has been milling grain into animal feed for eight generations and more than 200 years. The mill produces single feed components, standardised mixtures and custom-blended rations, including its own horse muesli. Alongside equine feed it supplies poultry, wild-bird and small-animal products, and manufactures private-label feed for other brands. Production combines traditional milling craft with modern quality control and an emphasis on GMO-free, natural ingredients.

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Riding school

Reitschule Schierloh

Meerbeck, Germany

Reitschule Schierloh is a riding school in Niedernwöhren, Schaumburg, working with its own string of school horses and ponies. Teaching runs from the "Ponymäuse" beginner groups and lunge lessons through group and private lessons to jumping instruction, ground work and theory. The school prepares riders for the full ladder of German FN qualifications, including riding badges 10 to 4, the lunging badge, the ground-work badge and the Pferdeführerschein Umgang and Reiten. Courses and clinics are held regularly on site.

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Tack & equestrian shop

Sattelservice Kissmann

Mechtersen, Germany

Sattelservice Kissmann is a mobile saddle-fitting service working across northern Germany from its base at Mechtersen in Lower Saxony. Inga Kissmann checks saddle fit on horse and rider, and carries out corrections and reflocking. The business also sells brand-name saddles and, on request, works alongside veterinarians, equine therapists and trainers. Appointments are made at the client's own yard.

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Riding club

Einemhofer Reiter e.V.

Mechtersen, Germany

Einemhofer Reiter e.V. is a riding club founded in 1979 for riders and horse owners around Mechtersen in Lower Saxony. Its focus is cross-country and hunt riding, and it maintains a network of bridleways in and around the Einemhofer forest. The club takes part in competitions and organises riding activities for its members through the year. It works alongside foresters, hunters and conservation interests to keep riding and woodland use compatible, including fire-prevention duties.

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Boarding facility+2

Reiterhof Köhler

Mechtersen, Germany

Reiterhof Köhler is a family-run equestrian farm at Mechtersen near Lüneburg. It offers horse boarding with stabling, pastures and access to an indoor school and outdoor arena, which can also be booked by outside riders. The farm breeds and raises dressage and eventing horses, rearing its own young stock on the property. Cross-country schooling facilities and extensive local hacking terrain are available on the doorstep. The yard is run personally by Lars-Johann Köhler.

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Riding school

TEAM Pony-Schule Bine

Mechtersen, Germany

TEAM Pony-Schule Bine is a pony school at Mechtersen near Lüneburg, run by riding pedagogue Bine Schulz. It offers an alternative to classical riding instruction, teaching children from the age of two to handle ponies and horses responsibly through group activities outdoors. Sessions build horsemanship, animal care and confidence alongside basic riding skills, with separate courses for toddlers with a parent, three-to-six year olds and six-to-ten year olds. Beginner and refresher courses for teenagers and adults, workshops and pony birthday parties are also offered.

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Reitschule Mechtersen e.V.

Mechtersen, Germany

Reitschule Mechtersen e.V. is a family-run riding school and boarding yard at Mechtersen near Lüneburg, run as a registered club since 1971. It teaches riders of every level across all disciplines and schools horses alongside them. The site has an indoor school, dressage and jumping arenas, an equine solarium, paddocks, pasture and open stabling. Horses and ponies are sold from the yard, and the surrounding terrain includes a cross-country course.

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Riding club

PSG der freien Voltigierer e.V.

Marxen, Germany

PSG der freien Voltigierer e.V. is an equestrian vaulting club based in Jesteburg in the Lüneburg Heath. More than ten squads train with the club, covering everything from recreational vaulting to competitive squad work, and members support each other across age groups. Individual vaulters compete at regional and national level, with several selected for state squads. The welfare of the vaulting horses is treated as the club first priority, and membership is open to newcomers as well as experienced athletes.

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Stud farm+2

Suzan Beuk

Marxen, Germany

Suzan Beuk is an Icelandic horse trainer and instructor based at Marxen, south of Hamburg. An IPZV trainer since 1989 and instructor since 1994, she gives individual lessons and small group sessions of no more than five riders, and takes horses in for schooling. Her approach puts a harmonious partnership between horse and rider ahead of quick competition results. She also breeds and sells Icelandic horses, runs IPZV certification courses, seminars and clinics, coaches young riders and teaches on the road at other yards.

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Boarding facility

Hof Tönns

Marxen, Germany

Reitanlage Hof Tönns is an FN-certified five-star livery yard at Marxen, about 30 km south of Hamburg near the Thieshope motorway exit, in operation since 2006. Horses are kept in generously sized boxes with paddocks and daily turnout, bedded on straw, and are fed hay or haylage two to three times a day plus oats or muesli three times. The facility has a riding hall, a dressage arena, a jumping arena, a lunging hall and a horse walker, along with a solarium and two wash bays with heated water. The yard administers veterinary medication, runs an annual worming programme and notifies owners by SMS if there is a health concern. Trailer parking and summer grazing are part of the offer.

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Boarding facility+1

Familie Eckhoff

Marxen, Germany

Islandpferdepension Familie Eckhoff is an Icelandic-horse livery yard in Marxen, south of Hamburg on the edge of the Lüneburger Heide. Boarding ranges from group keeping in an open stable through to individual boxes in a round barn, with a separate option for stallions. The yard is run by agricultural engineer Eva-Barbara Eckhoff and a trained team, who also advise owners on feeding and horse care. Riders have an arena, guest paddocks and extensive hacking country directly on the doorstep. An IPZV-qualified trainer offers horse schooling and riding instruction on site.

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Training barn+1

Pferdetraining Winter

Martfeld, Germany

Pferdetraining Winter is Jenny Winter training and wellness practice for horses in Martfeld, Lower Saxony. Training programmes are built around movement quality, muscle development and mental relaxation, with Dual-Aktivierung as a core method. She also offers rehabilitation training and muscle-building work for horses coming back from a layoff. Bodywork rounds out the service: therapeutic massage, peat-stamp massage and cold and heat therapy with moor. Courses and equine photography are available alongside the training work.

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Ludwig Barhufpflege

Martfeld, Germany

Lena Ludwig provides natural barefoot hoof care from Martfeld in Lower Saxony, trimming to the model nature sets rather than to a fixed shape. The work centres on restoring hoof balance and supporting the hoof's own self-healing processes in barefoot horses. She also advises on and helps develop paddock trails so that horses move enough for their hooves to stay healthy between visits. Equine massage and wellness applications are offered alongside the hoof work.

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Dr. Kristin Mielke

Martfeld, Germany

Tierarztpraxis und Gestüt Dr. Kristin Mielke combines a veterinary practice with a stud farm at Kleinenborstel near Martfeld in Lower Saxony. Dr. Kristin Mielke treats horses and other animals from the same site on which the stud breeds and raises its own horses. The website carries opening times, directions, an events calendar and a photo gallery of the yard, while detailed clinical information is reserved for registered clients in line with German professional advertising rules.

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Equine therapy

Gisela Christof Therapeutisches Reiten

Martfeld, Germany

Piccolino is a therapeutic and pedagogic riding practice run by Gisela Christof in Martfeld, Lower Saxony. The approach is gentle and holistic: children and adults are introduced to horses without performance pressure or sport-style drilling. Sessions of remedial educational riding are offered for children and young people with and without disabilities, alongside adventure-education projects built around themes such as knights or Native American life. Groups are capped at six participants so that every rider gets individual attention, and birthday parties for children can be booked around the ponies.

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De Paddloepers - Inga Schnelle

Martfeld, Germany

De Paddloepers is the yard of trainer Inga Schnelle in Martfeld, between Bremen and Nienburg. Riding instruction here starts from the horse's health and biomechanics, working towards a seat and a way of going that horse and rider can sustain, with tensegrity training used alongside ridden work. Children from about four are taught through the HIPPOLINI® method, which builds confidence and horsemanship before conventional riding lessons. Horses are kept in a paddock trail system that encourages constant natural movement, and the yard also takes horses for schooling and for training-based rehabilitation. Inga additionally gives external lectures, courses and training days.

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