Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Meyers Pferdewelt, trading as Pferdezucht & Pension Meyer, is a family-run breeding and livery yard at Meetschow near Gorleben in the Wendland. The yard describes its approach as natural, appropriate to the horse and honest, with individual care for riding horses, broodmares and foals. It runs its own breeding programme and offers livery places to private owners. Horses bred on the farm are offered for sale.
Offenstall Versteegen is a family-run farm at Gleichen-Sattenhausen near Göttingen that keeps around thirty horses in open stabling all year round. Horses live in groups with permanent access to paddocks, out on pasture in summer and on reinforced outdoor areas with open stalls in winter. Alongside full livery the farm offers short-stay horse-hotel places, breeding and youngstock rearing, and sells horses. The yard is also available for events.
Fellponygestüt Elbickerode, trading as Unity Fell Ponys, breeds Fell Ponies from English bloodlines at Elbickerode in the Gleichen municipality south of Göttingen. With around twenty ponies on the farm it is one of the larger Fell Pony breeding operations in Germany. Youngstock spend four years growing up in the herd and a further year in basic training before being offered for sale as dependable leisure partners. The yard also offers riding lessons, riding shares, care-horse arrangements and livery.
Hylanderhof is a horse breeding and sport yard in Gilten, Lower Saxony, run by Sina Dierking. The breeding programme is built around Hanoverian jumping bloodlines, with the yard's own broodmares and stallions; the stallions are presented separately at hylanderhof-hengste.de. Competition horses are produced and campaigned from the sport stable. Sina Dierking also runs a veterinary practice from the same location.
Islandpferdehof Goldgrund is a small Icelandic-horse stud and boarding yard at Gilten, roughly 30 km from Hanover on the edge of the Südheide. Michaela Laufs breeds Icelandic horses with her own breeding stallion and a group of broodmares, all kept on large, sparse sandy pastures. Alongside the breeding operation the farm offers Pferdepension boarding places for outside horses. Visits and viewings are arranged by appointment.
Leo König runs a sport-horse operation at Gehrde in the Osnabrücker Land, working under the line "from foal to champion". The yard breeds and produces show jumpers, keeps its own stallions and raises youngstock through to competition age. Horses are schooled on site and offered for sale from a standing sales string. Visitors are received at the yard by arrangement.
Andreas Hinkelbein runs a breeding and training yard at Ringstedt near Bremerhaven in Lower Saxony. The business breeds sport horses and presents its own foals, youngstock and broodmares. Alongside the breeding operation the yard schools horses and trains riders, with separate programmes for each. Horses bred and produced on the premises are offered for sale directly from the yard.
Moheba-Gestüt is an Arabian horse breeding and training centre at Langen near Bremerhaven, run by Dr. med. vet. Jutta Ginsel and Willi Ewen. The stud has bred straight Egyptian Arabians for more than thirty years and has also produced Arabian-Berbers since 2003. It stands stallions at its own covering station, raises and sells young stock, and trains both horses and riders. The yard additionally sells selected riding equipment and hand-made leather goods.
Gestüt Geestland is a Hanoverian breeding operation at Elmlohe in the Cuxland district of Lower Saxony, run by Andrea Baumgarten. The stud keeps a band of broodmares and documents each year's foal crop, its retired broodmares and its young horses on its own pages. Youngstock is raised on the farm and brought on until it is ready to be sold. Horses connected with the stud have been presented in show-jumping, eventing and cross-country classes. The site notes that some sections are still under construction.
The Araber Reit- und Ausbildungszentrum near Bremerhaven has bred straight Egyptian Arabians for more than 30 years and Arab-Barb horses since 2003. Stallions, mares and foals from the stud's own breeding programme are presented on the yard and offered for sale. The centre also schools horses and trains riders on the premises. Alongside the equestrian side it makes hand-crafted leather goods and sells a selected range of riding equipment and accessories.
Reit- und Zuchtbetrieb Marschalk-Pecksen is a family-run riding and breeding yard at Elmlohe near Geestland in Lower Saxony. The yard trains both riders and horses, keeps a string of school horses and publishes a weekly lesson timetable for riders at every level. It also offers livery for privately owned horses and runs its own breeding programme, with broodmares kept in regular light work well into pregnancy. Horses bred and produced on the farm are offered for sale.
Minishetty Gestüt von Steffens is a Mini Shetland pony stud at Geestland in the Cuxhaven district, breeding original Minishetlands under 87 cm. The stud keeps a band of registered broodmares and stands two licensed Bundesprämie stallions, Pinocchio von Kessen and Puccini von Steffens, both tested free of ACAN and skeletal atavism. A separate covering station at Fliederstraße 8 serves visiting mares. Foals, young stallions and fillies are offered for sale, and visits are arranged by telephone in advance.
Pensionsstall Rauschenberg provides professional horse boarding and breeding services. They offer high-quality accommodation and daily care for horses, ensuring a safe and comfortable environment. The facility emphasizes individual attention and care tailored to each horse's needs, promoting their well-being and development.
Gestüt auf dem Mühlenberge is a Hanoverian and Trakehner breeding operation run by Dr. Gudrun and Udo Strecker at Elmlohe, part of Geestland in the Cuxland district of Lower Saxony. The stud has been breeding and rearing sport horses for more than fifteen years and follows its youngstock from foal through to riding age. Horses are backed and schooled on site before being offered for sale. The farm has its own riding facility for the training work. Sales horses are also advertised through the e-horses marketplace.
Islandpferde Hölterhof is an Icelandic-horse breeding yard and riding school at Dalum in Geeste, Emsland, run by Manfred Krüssel and in operation for more than forty years. The farm breeds from its own stallions and mares, raises youngstock and sells both trained and untrained horses. Certified instructors give riding lessons on the yard and at riders own premises, and external courses run through the year. Guided hacks through the surrounding Emsland countryside and boarding in boxes or at pasture complete the offer.
Die feine Pferdezucht is a small private sport-horse breeding operation run by Dörthe Westermann at Garstedt in Lower Saxony. It breeds registered sport horses from a carefully selected mare base, planning each mating individually. The horses bred on the farm are also produced and shown in competition. Every mare, foal and young horse has its own profile and record on the farm, and youngstock is offered for sale.
Stall Elbers is a fourth-generation family yard in Garrel, Lower Saxony, where horses have been at the centre of the business throughout. Its strengths are the breeding and the schooling of show jumpers. Training is deliberately gentle and matched to each horse's age, with species-appropriate keeping as the starting point. The riding facility offers good conditions for horse and rider alike, and the team works with patience and empathy to develop both.
Pferdezucht Cording is a family horse-breeding operation at Bergedorf near Ganderkesee in the Oldenburg region. The farm keeps a group of broodmares and produces a foal crop each year, documenting each generation and its breeding plan on the site. Youngstock and made horses are offered for sale directly from the farm. Visitors interested in the breeding stock are welcome to come and see the horses by arrangement.
Venustas Reitponyzucht breeds German Riding Ponies at Ganderkesee in Lower Saxony and has done so for around nineteen years. The stud aims at ponies that are rideable, level-headed and clear in character, bred from proven bloodlines. It offers stud service and artificial insemination, with particular experience in mares that are difficult to get in foal, and rears its own foals and youngstock. Ponies from the breeding programme are offered for sale.
Syndikat Zukunftssterne is a syndicate standing German riding pony stallions at stud in Friesoythe. Its stallions are Basall, Best Boy, Ballacci, Nouvel or Noir, Cosmo Genial, Raven Heart and Double Brillant. Breeders are invited to visit and see the stallions in person.
HN Equitation in Friesoythe brings together the breeding of warmblood sport horses and classical horsemanship, run by Hannah Nett. Horses and riders are trained with an emphasis on health, sound long-term development and clear communication rather than quick results. School horses schooled to a high level are available for lessons. Riders are taught to develop their own feel and perception alongside their horse's education.
Schunterhof is a small farm on the edge of the Nord-Elm at Frellstedt in Lower Saxony, run by the Henninger family. Its main equestrian activity is the breeding of Connemara ponies, with licensed stallions standing at the farm and their competition records published on the site. Youngstock is offered for sale and riding lessons are given on the yard. The family also breeds standard and miniature poodles alongside the ponies.
Gut Neuensteden is a breeding and training yard at Freiburg an der Elbe, set on a listed thatched half-timbered courtyard farm whose origins reach back to the seventeenth century. Hanoverian horses have been bred here in the Kehdingen region for more than three hundred years, and the yard today produces Hanoverian and Oldenburg sport horses alongside a pony breeding programme. Mares are selected for sound character, health and willingness, and foals grow up on wide pastures at the Elbe estuary. Young horses are handled from foalhood and then brought on quietly through their basic training, with homebred horses offered for sale.
Hof Heisterbusch at Fredenbeck is run by Hannelore and Dietrich Bargsten as a Pferdewirtschaftsmeister operation dealing in and breeding horses. Horses are sold with purchase advice given, and the farm breeds and rears its own young stock. Liveries are kept with pasture access, in boxes with paddocks or outside, with an indoor school and an outdoor arena on site. Riding trails run through the surrounding countryside, and a holiday house on the property is let to visitors.
