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Hof Freese

Oyten, Germany

Hof Freese is a livery yard in Oyten near Bremen, sharing its site with the riding club RG Klein Hollen e.V. Horses are out on large pastures around the clock through the summer and spend winter days on a big sand paddock with an adjoining grass strip. The facilities include an indoor school, a floodlit 20 x 60 and a 20 x 40 dressage arena, a floodlit lungeing ring, a large summer jumping arena, two sick paddocks, a wash bay and a solarium. Fixed feeding times are kept, with individual rations and supplementary or diet feed where a horse needs it.

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Reitanlage Vortanz

Oyten, Germany

Reitanlage Vortanz is an equestrian centre at Bassen in Oyten, near Bremen, with room for 31 boarding horses and ponies. The yard puts its emphasis on species-appropriate horse keeping and on the wellbeing of horse and rider alike. Alongside livery it runs guided trail rides out into the surrounding countryside, and hosts events through the year.

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Pferdehof Koch

Ottersberg, Germany

Pferdehof Koch is a livery yard and riding school in the Quelkhorn/Fischerhude district of Ottersberg. The yard offers box stabling with paddocks and pasture turnout for boarders. Riding instruction is given to beginners, young riders aged roughly 12 to 16 and adults, from recreational level through to competition. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, outdoor arenas, a jumping arena, a round pen and direct access to hacking country, and the yard hosts its own in-house shows.

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Reitanlage Kohlstruck

Osterode am Harz, Germany

Reitanlage Kohlstruck is a livery yard run by Martina Kohlstruck at Osterode am Harz in southern Lower Saxony. Horses are kept in boxes with adjoining paddocks, and a limited number of open-stable places built during the yard's youngstock-rearing years are also let. All the basic forage is grown to organic standard on the family's own land. Riders have a 20x40 m indoor school and a 35x50 m outdoor arena, with summer pasture around the yard and surfaced sand paddocks for turnout in winter and bad weather.

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Pferdesportzentrum Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG

Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Germany

Pferdesportzentrum Lorenz is a full-service equestrian centre in the Teufelsmoor near Osterholz-Scharmbeck, run by the Lorenz family. The yard offers livery and paddock boxes, indoor riding halls and outdoor training arenas for horses in work. It also breeds sport horses and regularly has horses for sale. Holiday accommodation on site, a main house, a guest house and a holiday home, lets visiting riders stay on the yard.

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Hardenberg Reitanlage GbR

Nörten-Hardenberg, Germany

Hardenberg Reitanlage is a full-service equestrian centre on the grounds of Schloss Hardenberg in Nörten-Hardenberg, where horses have been kept and bred for centuries. The livery operation feeds concentrate three times and hay twice a day to an individual plan for every horse, mucks out through the week and offers paddock, pasture and horse-walker options. Jumping lessons are given by an experienced trainer who also competes and builds courses, while dressage instruction runs through the week up to advanced level and is arranged individually. The yard trains young and experienced horses on the principles of classical horsemanship, with full training, part training and holiday cover available. Regular jumping and dressage clinics round out the programme, and the site sits conveniently between Göttingen and Northeim.

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Reiterhof Harms

Norderney, Germany

Reiterhof Harms is a family-run riding farm on the North Sea island of Norderney, established as a working farm in 1929 and turned to tourism in the 1970s. It keeps spacious stabling and offers guest boxes, so visitors can bring their own horse to the island. Guided rides lead through the dunes and the coastal landscape around the lighthouse. The same family also runs the adjoining Tünnbak campground on the site. Both the equestrian operation and the campground are managed directly by the Harms family.

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Reit- und Ferienhof Maack

Neuharlingersiel, Germany

Reit- und Ferienhof Maack is a riding and holiday farm at Ostbense near Neuharlingersiel, a short distance from the North Sea coast in East Frisia. Riding tuition is given at every level from first lessons to advanced work, using three large outdoor arenas and an indoor school. Guided hacks and led rides take groups out into the surrounding marshland, and there is daily pony handling and a short pony ride for younger children. Twelve holiday apartments named after the East Frisian islands accommodate guests, and the family farms alongside to grow its own forage.

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Reitanlage Bösch

Neu Wulmstorf, Germany

Reitanlage Bösch is a large livery and riding facility at Neu Wulmstorf, just south of Hamburg, run by Mareike Hoops. The yard offers 63 paddock boxes, two indoor schools, a horse solarium, a horse walker and around ten hectares of pasture. The scale and equipment suit leisure riders and horses in regular work alike. The surrounding countryside gives direct access to hacking.

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Fjordpferde-Centrum

Neu Wulmstorf, Germany

Fjordpferde-Centrum is a riding school in Neu Wulmstorf near Hamburg, run by Peter Meyer. It teaches riders from the age of six in small groups matched by ability and age, following classical principles across dressage, jumping and cross-country riding. Theory lessons on horses and horsemanship accompany the practical work in the saddle. The site has two indoor arenas, an outdoor arena and direct access to open riding country. The centre also keeps and helps preserve endangered horse and livestock breeds.

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RedwoodTrails

Müden (Aller), Germany

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.

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Ricardo Tabaczek Sportpferde

Moormerland, Germany

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.

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Albers Ulmenhof - Freizeitreiter

Meppen, Germany

Ulmenhof is a family-run riding farm on the edge of Meppen in the Emsland, which has offered a range of activities for leisure riders for more than 20 years. The yard is run by the Albers family, who put the wellbeing of horse and rider at the centre of the operation. It sits conveniently for the town while remaining in open countryside. The farm is currently reworking its concept, and both the yard and its website are being rebuilt.

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Reit- & Pensionsstall Bölle

Meppen, Germany

Reit- & Pensionsstall Bölle is a livery and riding yard in Meppen, Emsland, with stabling for up to 35 horses. The site has a 60 x 20 m indoor school with an irrigation system, secured individual paddocks, a lunge ring, summer pastures and winter turnout. Riders have direct access to hacking routes through the surrounding fields, meadows and woodland. The yard is run to current German equestrian husbandry standards with an emphasis on individual horse care.

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Hof Hagemann-Krystosek

Melle, Germany

Hof Hagemann-Krystosek at Neuenkirchen near Melle is a livery yard with room for around 75 horses and ponies, run straw-free since 2017 with hay fed ad lib. Boarding options include paddock boxes, a HIT active stable, open stabling in small herds and large indoor boxes with self-care. Riders have a 20 × 40 m indoor school with mirrors, a 16 m lungeing hall, a 2,500 m² groundwork area, a floodlit dressage arena and a 35 × 70 m floodlit jumping arena, plus cross-country trails into the forest. For the horses there is a brine-oxygen inhalation chamber, a warm-water solarium and wash bay, a horse scale and trail-training obstacles, and seminars and courses run through the year.

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Sutmühlenhof

Melle, Germany

Sutmühlenhof is a livery and riding yard on the Sutmühlenstraße near Melle in Lower Saxony. It offers horse boarding in a range of box types, with an indoor school, outdoor arenas and direct access to hacking country. Riding instruction is available through instructors based at the yard, and group hacks are organised for liveries. A Reiterstübchen common room gives riders and their families a place to gather, and the farm also breeds and sells horses.

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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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Kutschfahrten Goedecke

Lüchow, Germany

Kutschfahrten Gödecke is a small family business in Loge near Lüchow in the Wendland, offering horse-drawn carriage drives through the surrounding countryside. Stephanie and Jörg Gödecke drive their own teams of heavy horses and cold-blood/Friesian crosses, which they train specifically for traffic and cross-country work. Regular routes take in the Rundlingsdörfer villages and a gourmet drive to Jabel, and bespoke tours can be arranged. Wedding carriage drives are a core part of the offering, alongside covered wagon and group outings. The horses live out on the family's pastures between engagements.

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Ponyhof Woltermann

Löningen, Germany

Ponyhof Woltermann is a family-run riding farm at Schelmkappe near Löningen in the Hasetal, offering supervised riding holidays for children and teenagers aged six to eighteen. Around 140 ponies and horses live across some 50 hectares of pasture, and every guest is matched to a mount for the stay. Days combine riding lessons and hacks along the river Hase with cross-country schooling, carriage rides and games. Weekend packages are offered alongside the full week.

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Reitsportanlage BP

Loxstedt, Germany

Reitsportanlage BP is a dressage yard near Bremerhaven run by Marco Bührig and Tatjana Piontek. The business schools horses under saddle and teaches dressage from novice level up to Grand Prix, with facilities built to allow training in any weather. Trained dressage horses are produced and offered for sale, and full livery with daily turnout is available. The yard also hosts dressage clinics, seminars and competitions.

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Veltenhof Stadtlander

Lilienthal, Germany

Veltenhof Stadtlander is a livery yard and breeding operation on eleven hectares at Lilienthal near Bremen, in business for around 25 years. Three barns hold about 80 boxes — paddock, window and interior — with daily mucking out, organic hay and weekday turnout. Facilities include a 45x22 m indoor school with LED lighting and a lungeing hall with two circles. Qualified riding instruction and schooling are available on site, and the yard breeds Hanoverian horses.

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Andreas und Corinna Wegener

Lembruch, Germany

Wegener Sporthorses is the Wegener family's sport horse yard at Lembruch on the Dümmer lake in Lower Saxony, with a particular focus on ponies. The business schools and produces horses and ponies and trains their riders, and sells produced horses to private buyers. Livery and use of the yard's facilities are available to clients. The family also hosts small-group riding and nature holidays on the farm.

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Reitanlage Gut Lübbersen

Lauenau, Germany

Gut Lübbersen is a working estate near Lauenau in Lower Saxony that combines farming with a livery yard for horses. Because the farm grows its own forage and bedding, boarders' horses are fed and bedded from the estate's own crop. Facilities include an indoor school, an outdoor arena, boxes, paddocks and pastures, with hacking straight off the yard. It is run by Anja and Carl-Börries Thies and caters for leisure and competition riders alike, with regular veterinary care built into the routine.

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