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Equestrian centres

Multi-discipline yards, arena hire and hacking — a base for everything you ride.

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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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Langeooger Kutschfahrten

Langeoog, Germany

Langeooger Kutschfahrten has been driving horse-drawn carriages on the car-free North Sea island of Langeoog for around twenty years. Its navy-liveried carriages are pulled by Friesians and are used for guided tours through the Wadden Sea National Park and around the island's landmarks, with commentary from the driver. Regular routes include a three-hour trip out to the Meierei dairy café and a one-hour island circuit, alongside bookable private and group drives. Pick-up for guests with limited mobility can be arranged in advance.

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Hannoverscher Rennverein e. V.

Langenhagen, Germany

Hannoverscher Rennverein e.V. is a thoroughbred racing association founded in 1867 that operates the Neue Bult racecourse at Langenhagen near Hannover. It is one of the longest-established racing clubs in Germany and stages a full calendar of flat race meetings each season. Race days are run as family events with childrens activities alongside the sport, and the totalisator handles betting on course. The site also provides training facilities for resident trainers and can be hired as an event location, with several hospitality lounges available to sponsors and corporate guests.

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Reitanlage Vibrans

Langelsheim, Germany

Reitanlage Vibrans is a livery yard at Hahausen on the northern edge of the Harz, run by Michael and Janina Vibrans. Species-appropriate keeping is the priority: horses go out in small groups on generous, well-kept summer pasture, and in the winter half-year they get daily turnout in small groups on clean, surfaced paddocks. Feeding is twice daily on good hay, haylage and hard feed, all from the family's own harvest. A bright 20x40 m indoor school and the surrounding woods, meadows and field tracks give year-round riding.

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Reitsportanlage Ziegler

Kirchdorf, Germany

Reitsportanlage Ziegler is a livery yard in Kirchdorf, Lower Saxony, offering riding comfort in a family atmosphere. The facility has a 20 x 55 m indoor school and a 45 x 60 m outdoor arena, so horses can be worked in any weather. A jumping course with thirteen obstacles is available on site. Riders also have direct access to the bridle-path network of the Kirchdörfer Heide.

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Jasperhof GmbH & Co.KG Pferdepension

Jerxheim, Germany

Jasperhof Jerxheim is a modern active stable for horses and ponies at Jerxheim, between the Heeseberg and the Großes Bruch south of the Elm, built in 2021/22 by Antje Gritzan. Horses live in herd groups on a paddock-trail system rather than in conventional single boxes. The site has a 20x60 m outdoor arena, dressage and jumping arenas, a round pen and a salt chamber, with direct access to hacking. It runs a programme of dressage courses, TGT courses and theory seminars, and is currently adding a further gelding group.

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Reitsportanlage Vietze

Höhbeck, Germany

Reitsportanlage Vietze is a riding centre on the Höhbeck in the Wendland, best known for bringing children to horses for the first time. It runs beginner riding lessons, pony sessions, school and kindergarten groups and children's riding camps during the holidays. The yard offers livery, guided hacks on mapped routes through the surrounding countryside and a riding simulator used for fitness and rider training. An indoor school, outdoor arenas and social rooms are available for clinics and events, and the site has recently helped found the Pferdesportverein Höhbeck e.V.

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Reit- und Therapiezentrum Monse

Holle, Germany

Reit- und Therapiezentrum Monse is an equestrian centre at Mittelstraße in Holle, in the Hildesheim district of Lower Saxony, run by Elsa Monse, who holds a master's degree in equine science, together with Mario Monse. The centre boards horses and runs a riding school on its own arena in a family-oriented setting. Wellness and fitness work for horses is a particular focus, including aqua trainer sessions and therapeutic support. Individual programmes are put together on consultation, and appointments can be booked online.

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Landhotel Pferdeschulze

Hitzacker (Elbe), Germany

Landhotel Pferdeschulze is a family-run riding-holiday operation in the Wendland, close to the Elbe valley, built around riding tuition for adults. Instruction is tailored to beginners, late starters, returning riders and advanced riders, and is packaged into weekend breaks and week-long themed courses such as horsemanship, seat training and riding combined with yoga. Guests may bring their own horse, which is kept in paddock boxes with full board. Guided hacks and a natural cross-country course use the surrounding terrain, and the hotel and chalets provide accommodation, regional cooking and a sauna on site.

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Bischofs Hof

Hilter, Germany

Bischofs Hof is a riding establishment in Hilter am Teutoburger Wald. Its core is a rolling programme of clinics, which the farm calls its Universität, taught by well-known trainers and covering liberty work, classical dressage on the horse and on the double lunge, working equitation, horsemanship and young-horse education. Riders bring their own horses to the courses, which are kept to small groups of around eight. Stabling and apartments on site mean horse and rider can stay for the length of a course.

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Paardencentrum Op de Heegswal

Het Hogeland, Netherlands

Paardencentrum Op de Heegswal is a family-run equestrian centre at Uithuizermeeden in the north of Groningen. The yard offers livery and boarding for horses and ponies alongside a weekly programme of riding lessons for children and adults. It also runs a horse-and-carriage service, with a covered wagon and a horse tram available for weddings, group outings and local events. The centre holds a safety certificate for its activities.

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Stal Homan

Het Hogeland, Netherlands

Stal Homan is a riding centre in Winsum, Groningen, with more than 50 years of experience in horse keeping. It stables horses and ponies in 33 boxes, with daily free use of all the riding facilities on site for owners. Instruction is offered from beginner to advanced level by a Deurne-trained instructor, covering private and group lessons, jumping, vaulting and guest clinics. Riders can learn on their own horse or on one of the yard's school horses and ponies, and the stable also brokers horse purchases and sales and provides grass turnout.

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Gut Appel Selkirk KG

Helvesiek, Germany

Gut Appel is a historic estate at Helvesiek between Hamburg and Bremen, first documented in the fourteenth century and restored by the Selkirk family since 2010. Around forty horses live on the estate, which offers a polo ground, a former trotting track, an irrigated 80 by 20 metre dressage arena, a grass jumping field inside the racecourse and a small indoor school. The estate is home to the Hanseatischer Polo Club and welcomes polo players, show jumpers, dressage and leisure riders alike; stable blocks can be leased for owners looking to keep their horse there. The Ponyschule Herzenspferd also operates on site, and the estate restaurant and event barn round out the setting.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Haselünne und Umgebung

Haselünne, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Haselünne e.V. is an equestrian club founded in 1928 in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony, with roughly a hundred active members. It covers dressage, show jumping, driving and vaulting, and welcomes riders of every age and standard from beginners upward. The site at Georg-Bernd-Straße has two indoor arenas, floodlit ebb-and-flow outdoor arenas and stabling. The club runs courses, training sessions and its own competitions through the year.

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Reiterhof Lüssing GmbH & Co. KG

Haren (Ems), Germany

Reiterhof Lüssing is a full-service equestrian centre at Raken near Haren on the river Ems, set in woodland in the Emsland region. It offers permanent livery for resident horses as well as guest stabling for visiting riders, alongside guest rooms and apartments on the farm. Riding lessons are given by qualified instructors in indoor and outdoor arenas, and more than 60 km of sandy bridle paths start at the yard. Carriage drives, hunts, competitions and other equestrian events run throughout the year. The on-site Rakener Reiterstube provides catering for riders and guests.

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Geländeplatz Ollsen

Tünnersfeld, 21271 Asendorf, Germany

Geländeplatz Ollsen is a cross-country schooling ground in Hanstedt-Ollsen. It has cross-country jumps from pony height up to a few at L level on grass and sand footing. Riders can also use banks, water and steps for conditioning work, take dressage outside or use the gallop track. Clinics can be held on the ground, and riders must book 24 hours in advance.

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Waldhof Reitanlage Ollsen

Hanstedt, Germany

Waldhof Reitanlage is a riding and boarding yard run by Maud Mackenroth and Mira Mackenroth-Schwab at Ollsen, inside the Lüneburg Heath nature park south of Hamburg. Horses are kept in boxes or in open stabling, and guest horses are taken in for riders passing through. The yard sits on roughly 250 kilometres of connected bridle paths, so hacking and terrain riding are the main draw. Courses and events are held through the year, and a salt-air inhalation room is available on site.

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