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Riding clubs

Clubs, associations and pony clubs — the community side of the sport, near you.

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Reithalle des RFV Wechold-Martfeld

Hilgermissen, Germany

The Reit- und Fahrverein Wechold-Martfeld und Umgebung e.V. is a riding and driving club at Wechold in Hilgermissen, Lower Saxony. It runs its own indoor school with a published hall schedule for members. Instruction is organised by discipline, with dressage lessons, jumping lessons and Führzügel classes for the youngest riders. The club also holds clinics and Reitabzeichen badge courses through the year. It stages its own annual competition and publishes its statutes and membership terms online.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Hildesheim e.V.

Mastbergstraße 19, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Hildesheim e.V. is a riding and driving club founded in 1948. Since 1974 it has been based at the historic Gut Steuerwald estate on the edge of Hildesheim, with more than 10 hectares including paddocks. The club offers riding lessons for almost all ages, for children from six years, and keeps a waiting list. It is run by volunteers.

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Paardensportvereniging Winnetou

Het Hogeland, Netherlands

PSV Winnetou is a small, welcoming riding school and equestrian sports club in Ulrum in the north of Groningen. It gives dressage lessons from beginner to advanced level as well as vaulting and carriage-driving lessons, with riders welcome to use their own horse or one of the club horses and ponies. The yard also provides livery, with pony and horse stalls plus a shelter with hard standing and grass for Shetlands, and turnout is prioritised year-round. Alongside in-house competitions the club organises clinics, pony days and pony camps.

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L.R. en P.C. "De Waddenruiters"

Het Hogeland, Netherlands

De Waddenruiters is a KNHS-affiliated equestrian association at Warffum in the north of Groningen province, combining a riding club, a pony club and a driving section. Members take riding lessons on association horses or on their own horses, following KNHS safety standards. The club runs its own stabling at Oostervalge and manages arena time for members through a booking schedule. Pony camps and club activities fill out the calendar alongside the regular lessons.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Herzlake

Herzlake, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Herzlake e.V. is a riding and driving club in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. Its members ride across several disciplines, with dressage, show jumping and western riding all represented, and a pony league section for the youngest competitors. The club runs its own riding facility and offers stabling to members under a standard livery agreement. It organises tournaments and training days and has a dedicated youth officer looking after junior members.

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Reit- u. Fahrverein Hechthausen Basbeck und Umgebung e.V.

Hechthausen, Germany

The Reit- & Fahrverein Hechthausen/Basbeck und Umgegend e.V. is a riding and driving club in the Cuxhaven district of Lower Saxony. Members and guests can use the club's indoor school and competition grounds on a daily or quarterly basis, and free schooling on the show ground is possible almost any time. The club runs a regular programme of clinics, seminars and workshops, and stages dressage, jumping and vaulting competitions. A rider rally in September is among the fixtures in its calendar.

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Reitverein Hattorf

Hattorf am Harz, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Hattorf e.V. is a riding and driving club in Hattorf am Harz, Lower Saxony. It runs its own riding facility with stabling for boarders and an organised riding programme for members. The fixture list includes a tournament, a western show and a school-holiday programme for children. Riding places are currently full, and enquiries are added to a waiting list.

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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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Reit- und Fahrverein Harsum

Harsum, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Harsum und Umgebung e.V. is a riding and driving club based at Messestraße in Harsum, Lower Saxony. It provides riding instruction with qualified trainers for members of all levels and puts particular weight on bringing children and young riders into the sport. The club organises and hosts its own tournaments during the season and supports members who compete elsewhere. Sponsorship arrangements help fund the arena and club activities.

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Bendestorfer Reitverein Kleckerwald e.V.

Harmstorf, Germany

Bendestorfer Reitverein Kleckerwald is one of the oldest riding clubs in the Harburg district and has been running for more than fifty years. Vaulting is the centre of club life, taught to children and adults alongside general riding instruction. Members train through the year, travel to competitions and take part in club training weekends. The club also puts on community events and festivals at its yard at Rehmenkamp in Harmstorf.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Rütenbrock und Umgebung

Haren (Ems), Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Rütenbrock u.U. e.V. is one of the larger equestrian clubs in the Emsland, founded in 1923 and now with more than 550 members. It covers dressage, show jumping, eventing, leisure riding and carriage driving, and runs riding instruction backed by school ponies, a Ponyexpress scheme and a pony league for the youngest riders. The club also offers therapeutic riding alongside its sport programme. Its riding hall can be hired, and the annual Rütenbrocker Reitertage draws large fields of horses and riders.

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IGV Niedersachsen e.V.

Hanstedt, Germany

IGV Niedersachsen e.V. is an eventing association for Lower Saxony, bringing together riders, trainers and organisers around cross-country and versatility riding. It runs the IGV Trophy series at E and A level and for lead-rein riders across the region, and organises training in dressage, cross-country and indoor work with a range of trainers. The association keeps a directory of every cross-country course in the region and lends out cross-country fences for lessons and competitions. It also supports event organisers with funding, equipment and expertise, and runs a club shop. Membership is open to new members.

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Reitclub Königshofer Heide e.V.

Hamersen, Germany

Reitclub Königshofer Heide e.V. is a dressage-focused club and training yard at Sittensen in Lower Saxony. Riders are coached on the club's own facility, and the trainer's pupils compete regularly at regional level. Horses are schooled on the yard through to competition standard. Produced horses are also offered for sale.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Hambergen e.V.

Hambergen, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Hambergen e.V. is a riding club founded in 1950 in the Osterholz district of Lower Saxony, where three generations of members now ride together. It teaches riders from the Führzügelklasse for the youngest beginners through to competition level M, combining structured instruction with coaching for members who compete. The club stages its own show jumping and dressage competitions on its grounds at Feldstraße and runs traditional club events such as the Königsreiten. Membership is open to riders of all ages and abilities.

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Reitverein Hagen und Umgegend eV

Hagen im Bremischen, Germany

Reitverein Hagen u. U. e.V. is a riding club in Hagen im Bremischen, Lower Saxony, which celebrated its centenary in 2013. It is organised into several sections covering riding and related equestrian activities for members. A calendar of fixtures, courses and social events runs through the year, managed by an elected volunteer board. Membership is open to riders of all ages.

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Reitverein St. Martinus Hagen a.T.W. v. 1927 e.V.

Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Germany

Reitverein St. Martinus Hagen a.T.W. von 1927 e.V. is a riding club in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald in the Osnabrueck region, founded in 1927. It brings together local riders around club riding and equestrian sport. Its calendar centres on a long-running benefit tournament together with courses and members social events. New members are welcome and the committee can be reached through the club office.

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Reitverein Hainholzhof

Göttingen, Germany

RV Hainholzhof Göttingen und Herberhausen e.V. is a riding club whose grounds sit inside the Göttingen city forest. The site provides stabling and boxes for members horses together with riding facilities on a well-kept complex. The club no longer offers riding or vaulting instruction and now concentrates on horse keeping and on riding for its members. It is entered in the register of associations at the Amtsgericht Göttingen.

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RSC Haftenkamp e.V.

Gölenkamp, Germany

RSC Haftenkamp e.V. is a riding and sport club at Vechteweg 14 in Haftenkamp, in the Grafschaft Bentheim district of Lower Saxony. It sets out to combine top-level sport with a family atmosphere and is best known for the Grafschafter Festival des Pferdes, its annual dressage and jumping show. Starting lists and results for its fixtures are published on the club website. An active youth section and member development sit alongside the competition programme.

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Sportfarm Lüneburger Heide

Göhrde, Germany

Sportfarm Lüneburger Heide e.V. is a registered non-profit association for sport, youth and health that runs the riding club at the Land Kamerun equestrian grounds in Göhrde, roughly 40 km east of Lüneburg. Members ride and train on the site's facilities in the Elbtalaue and Wendland region of Lower Saxony. The club is chaired by Helge Stehr and has its registered office in Lüneburg. It operates alongside, but as a separate legal entity from, the riding-holiday and hotel business based at the same address.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Holtriem e. V.

Eschenweg 3A, 26532 Großheide, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Holtriem e. V. is an equestrian club established in 1977. The club offers various riding and driving activities for its members. It provides a platform for horse enthusiasts to engage in equestrian sports and events.

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Reit- u. Fahrverein Westerende

Großheide, Germany

The Reit- und Fahrverein Westerende is a riding and driving club at Großheide in East Frisia. Its grounds hold indoor schools, a horse walker and a competition arena, together with a clubhouse canteen for members. Riding takes place across vaulting, show jumping and dressage under the club's own riding and vaulting instructors. The club keeps its own horses and publishes an arena timetable, an event calendar and a picture gallery for members.

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Reitgemeinschaft Goslar e.V.

Goslar, Germany

Reitgemeinschaft Goslar e.V. is a riding club in Goslar at the northern edge of the Harz. It is a member of the Pferdesportregion Harzvorland and of the Pferdesportverband Hannover. The club is organised into three sections: riding, hunt riding (Jagdreiterei) and vaulting. It keeps its own club horses and publishes an annual calendar of clinics and events. Members compete regularly and the club records their results each season.

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DEUTSCHER SHIRE HORSE VEREIN E.V.

Gnarrenburg, Germany

The Deutscher Shire Horse Verein e.V. is the German breed association for the Shire Horse, formed to preserve and promote the breed in Germany. It maintains the national studbook, coordinates foal registration through an online reporting system, and runs stallion licensing and breed inspections. Members have access to a stallion directory, a horse marketplace, breed standard documentation and guidance on care, feeding and housing. The association also organises shows and exhibitions and publishes its magazine "Sanfte Riesen".

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Reitverein Sankt Georg Gesellschaft der Pferdefreunde Gifhorn e.V.

Gifhorn, Germany

St. Georg Gesellschaft der Pferdefreunde Gifhorn e.V., known locally as Sankt Georg Winkel, is a riding club founded in 1957 in the Winkel district of Gifhorn. It teaches riders of every age and level, from lunge lessons for beginners through dressage, jumping and hacking out, using well-schooled club horses and ponies. Facilities include an indoor arena, an outdoor and jumping arena and riding terrain. The club also runs clinics, riding-badge examinations, youth work and its own competitions.

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