Clubs, associations and pony clubs — the community side of the sport, near you.
Reit- und Fahrverein St. Georg Georgsmarienhütte und Umgebung e.V. is a riding and driving club serving Georgsmarienhütte and the surrounding area. Members ride at four yards across Georgsmarienhütte, Hasbergen and Osnabrück, each with its own local contact. The club organises lessons, competitions and a fixture calendar for riders and drivers. Youth work includes an annual tent camp and other activities for younger members.
Reitverein Gehrde e.V. is a riding club based in Gehrde in the Osnabrueck district of Lower Saxony. It maintains its own indoor riding arena, used by members for riding and training. The hall is additionally offered as a venue for events and celebrations. The club website is currently being rebuilt, so a full programme of lessons and fixtures is not yet published online.
The Reit- und Voltigierclub Neuenwalde von 2005 e.V. is a riding and vaulting club at Neuenwalde in Geestland, north of Bremerhaven. Vaulting and riding are its two sections, each with its own instructors and training groups. The club runs a regular calendar of training dates and club events at its facility on Im Grunde. Separate contacts are published for general enquiries, the committee and the training leaders. It is represented by its chairman, Harald Ropers.
Reitsportverein Neuenwalde e.V. is an equestrian club in Geestland, Cuxhaven district, promoting both competitive and leisure riding. Lessons run for every age group, from preparatory courses for children to classes for older riders, and cover lunge work, dressage and jumping. The club prepares members for the German riding badges and examinations and advises on horse care and feeding. Its grounds include jumping and dressage arenas plus an indoor school, and the calendar mixes trail rides and skill competitions with barbecue evenings, Christmas celebrations and flea markets.
Reitverein Grüppenbühren is a riding club between Oldenburg and Bremen offering riding and vaulting. It keeps its own horses for lessons. It also offers team training.
The Reiterverband Oldenburg is the regional equestrian federation for the Oldenburg area of Lower Saxony. It acts as the umbrella body for the local Kreisreiterverbände and their member riding clubs. The federation organises the Oldenburg state championships in both riding and driving, along with a calendar of regional competitions. A dedicated youth committee runs youth series, inter-regional youth competitions and development programmes for young riders. It also coordinates sponsorship and partnership arrangements for regional equestrian sport.
Reiterverein Hohenböken e.V. is a riding club at Reiterweg 1 in the Hohenböken district of Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. It brings together local riders and horse owners around club riding and the shared upkeep of the grounds. Regular activities include team riding, members work days and club social events. News, fixtures and a photo archive are published for members on the club website.
The Schulreitsportzentrum Fürstenau is a riding centre for school classes and youth groups operated by the Reit- und Fahrverein Fürstenau e.V. in the Osnabrück district. It combines group accommodation of 34 beds with riding instruction on the club's own horses and ponies. Visiting group leaders who hold a valid trainer licence may teach their own lessons on the premises. Alongside riding the club offers vaulting, carriage driving and pony games, and the house can also be booked for club weekends, family celebrations and cycling or trekking groups.
The Therapeutischer Reitverein Sankt Martin e.V. is a registered therapeutic riding club serving the Göttingen area from Friedland. It brings people with and without disabilities together with horses, describing its mission as helping everyone get on a horse. The club's work spans hippotherapy, curative-educational riding and ordinary riding sport under one roof. It operates as a member-run association rather than a commercial yard.
Reit- und Fahrverein Lathen e.V. is a riding and driving club in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. It provides riding lessons and keeps school horses so members without their own horse can learn, and runs courses in both classical and western riding. The club stages dressage tournaments and a spring horse festival with catering, and puts on hobby-horse activities and workshops for younger children. It reaches members and the local community through Facebook, Instagram and a WhatsApp contact line.
Reitverein Fredenbeck und Umgebung e.V. is a non-profit riding club in Fredenbeck, Lower Saxony, founded in 1920. It runs riding instruction on club school horses and ponies, and members can take on riding and care shares. The club regularly hosts clinics and continuing-education sessions with visiting trainers, and stages dressage, youth and vaulting competitions on its own grounds. Its work is carried entirely by volunteers, and new members of every age and level are welcome.
Reit- und Fahrverein Freden - Rittergut Esbeck e.V. is a riding club located in Freden, Germany. The club offers various equestrian activities and services, including horse breeding. It is dedicated to promoting equestrian sports and providing a community for horse enthusiasts.
Pferdezuchtverein Landesbergen e.V. is a horse-breeding association in the Middle Weser region of Lower Saxony, organising breeders around Landesbergen. Its central facility is a Deckstelle, a stallion station where mares belonging to members are covered, which moved to Düdinghausen near Steyerberg in 2025. The club runs breeding fixtures through the season and publishes the registration paperwork members need. Administration is handled from the club office in Eystrup.
Reitverein Eystrup u. Umgebung e.V. is a riding club at An der Reithalle in Eystrup, in the Nienburg/Weser district of Lower Saxony. It offers riding instruction for a range of levels and runs a vaulting section. Members without their own horse can take up a share-ride or care-share arrangement with a club or privately owned horse. The club rents out horse boxes and gives members access to its arena and facilities.
The Reit- und Fahrverein Essen i. O. e.V. is the riding and driving club of Essen in Oldenburg, based on its own facility at Bloumenplacken. It teaches riders of every level, with a Zwergengruppe for the youngest children and pony games for juniors. Indoor and outdoor boxes are available for members' horses, and an online booking tool manages warm-up arena slots. The club also runs clinics and stages its own tournaments and events through the year.
The Reit- und Fahrverein Aller-Leine e.V. is a riding and driving club based on the equestrian facility at Essel in the Heidekreis. It is best known for the Esseler Reitsporttage, a multi-day fixture that pairs dressage classes up to Grand Prix level with show jumping. Through the year the club organises training clinics for its members, from seated lunge lessons to dressage sessions with visiting trainers. Facility use, membership and the club statutes are all set out on its website.
Harlinger Pferdesport Corps (HPC) Esens is one of Germany's oldest riding clubs, founded in 1857 and today counting around 250 members in the Wittmund district of East Frisia. The club runs an FN-certified riding school that has been teaching riders since 2006, using its own indoor arena and outdoor riding areas. It also offers boarding with individual stalls and paddocks and round-the-clock horse care. Club life centres on regular training, in-house shows and a full competition calendar.
Pferdesportgemeinschaft Rittergut Habighorst e.V. is an equestrian club at the Rittergut estate in Habighorst near Eschede, founded in 2001 and now around 150 members strong. It runs three sections: ridden instruction, vaulting (Volti) and therapeutic riding. The therapy work is deliberately inclusive, bringing people with and without disabilities together around the club horses. Members compete regionally and the club publishes its own fixtures and results.
Riding and driving club founded in 1924 in Engelschoff, north-west of Stade. The club has an indoor arena with stables and outdoor arenas, and offers lessons in riding, vaulting and carriage driving. Traditions such as ring riding, ride drills, club jumping and quadrille are kept up.
Reitverein Elsdorf u. Umgebung e.V. is a riding club founded in 1981 that moved to its present site at Rüspel, near Elsdorf in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district, in 2003. The grounds offer generous pasture and paddock space, an indoor riding hall, an outdoor arena, a jumping arena and a round pen. A twelve-box stable block provides boarding for members' horses. The club is a base for local riders across the Elsdorf area.
Reit- und Fahrverein Einbeck e.V. is a riding and driving club whose grounds sit among the municipal sports facilities of Einbeck, with direct access to the town forest and open hacking country. Teaching covers basic and lunge lessons in the afternoon and dressage, jumping and advanced work in the evening, and the club runs holiday riding courses and prepares members for the Basispass, Hufeisenabzeichen and Reitabzeichen. It hosts a full tournament season from spring to autumn, from WBO entry-level classes up to LPO dressage and jumping at S level. Members can also stable their horses on site: standard, XL and window boxes with full board, individual paddocks and pasture, a 20x40m indoor arena, two sand arenas, a grass arena and a horse solarium.
Reit- und Fahrverein Kettenkamp is a riding and driving club in the Osnabrück district of Lower Saxony. It teaches riding to members of all ages, keeps school horses for lessons and runs a strong youth section built around the regional Ponyliga competitions. Vaulting, clinics such as seat-improvement courses, jumping competitions and orientation rides fill out the calendar, and a regular Kutschertreff brings the carriage drivers together. The club also runs holiday activity programmes for children on its grounds at Zum Reitplatz.
The Reit- und Fahrverein AUETAL e.V. has been established in the Lüneburg Heath since 1958 and is one of Germany's best-known eventing clubs. Around 500 members aged from 8 to 80 keep up the traditions of eventing, carriage driving and hunt riding inside the Naturpark Lüneburger Heide. Its cross-country park covers five hectares of sandy heath, meadow and mixed woodland with roughly 50 permanent obstacles at varying levels of difficulty. A jumping arena, a 26 x 66 m dressage arena and further warm-up areas complete the site, and professional instruction is available by arrangement from May to September. The club stages internationally recognised spring and summer tournaments each year.
R.V. de Fivelruiters is an equestrian sports club founded in 1965 and based at Manege de Veenhoeve in Appingedam, Groningen. The club runs dressage and show-jumping competitions through both the indoor and outdoor seasons for riders from beginner to advanced level. Members pay reduced rates for use of the facilities and can pre-register for competitions. Its best-known event is the four-day Hippos Concours Appingedam held during the autumn school holidays, alongside pony camps, instruction days and jumping afternoons.
