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Mühlenhof Dudensen GmbH

Neustadt am Rübenberge, Germany

Mühlenhof Dudensen is a trail-riding yard near Neustadt am Rübenberge, run by Anette Spitzl together with Henning and Lukas Koslowski. The farm keeps around twenty Mangalarga Marchador horses and specialises in multi-day guided rides through the countryside between the Steinhuder Meer nature park and the Lüneburg Heath. Alongside the rides it offers training for horse and rider and coaching, led by a DWA-qualified trail-ride guide. Guests are accommodated and fed on the farm, with cooking from its own herb garden and wood-fired oven.

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Reiterhof Maack

Neuharlingersiel, Germany

Reit- und Ferienhof Maack is a working farm at Ostbense near the North Sea spa town of Neuharlingersiel in East Frisia, close to the dyke and the Wadden Sea national park. The Maack family keeps a large number of horses and ponies and runs riding holidays for guests of every level. Riding instructors lead beginner hacks, led hacks for small children and daily rides for experienced riders along the dyke and the field tracks, plus pony leading sessions each afternoon. Riding lessons are bookable individually and the farm has its own Reiterstübchen for riders. Holiday apartments on the farm allow guests to stay on site for a riding holiday by the sea.

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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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pferdisch.me

Neuenkirchen-Vörden, Germany

pferdisch.me is the equine training and behaviour practice of Dr Christine Pohl, based at Melle in Lower Saxony. She works with problem horses and their owners through behaviour analysis, groundwork, liberty work, loading training, competition preparation and ridden lessons. Alongside training she offers energetic equine massage, barefoot hoof trimming and saddle-fit checks. The business also runs certification courses for people who want to work professionally with horses, as groundwork trainers, riding instructors, equine masseurs or health trainers.

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Pferdeosteopathie und -Therapie Sarah Grunwald

Neuenkirchen, Germany

Sarah Grunwald offers equine osteopathy and physiotherapy across the Harburg district and neighbouring areas of Lower Saxony, working from Tostedt. Her treatments target movement restrictions with individually planned, holistic care, and include dry needling and leech therapy for inflammatory complaints. She also gives riding instruction, so training and therapy can be dealt with together. Riders of varying levels are taught.

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Isländerhof Rutenmühle

Neuenkirchen, Germany

Isländerhof Rutenmühle is a family-run Icelandic-horse farm in the Lüneburg Heath at Neuenkirchen, operated by Johann and Juliane Kath. The yard has an indoor school, a dressage arena, an oval track and a round pen, and runs holiday riding courses on its own Icelandic horses as well as taking guests who bring their own horse. It breeds and sells Icelandic horses and takes in young stock for rearing. Accommodation in three tiny houses on the farm lets riders stay on site for the length of a course.

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Pure Horse Training

Neubörger, Germany

Pure Horse Training is the natural-horsemanship practice of Melissa Moens at Neubörger in the Emsland. She teaches horse-and-rider pairs from the ground and under saddle, with an emphasis on clear communication, trust and refinement rather than pressure. Services include individual lessons, courses, online seminars, trailer-loading training and problem-solving for horses that have become difficult to handle. She also starts and schools young horses and advises on Paddock Paradise track systems.

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Reitstall Hinze

Neu Wulmstorf, Germany

Reitstall Hinze is a livery yard set inside the Regionalpark Rosengarten at Neu Wulmstorf, south-west of Hamburg. The yard keeps a family atmosphere and welcomes competition riders and leisure riders alike. Dressage and show-jumping instruction is available on site, and horses are boarded with individual care. Its position gives riders direct access to an extensive network of bridle paths through the regional park.

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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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Rabea-Maria Ahlert

Neetze, Germany

Rabea-Maria Ahlert trains horses and coaches their people under the name "it works by nature", east of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony. Her work pairs behaviour science with the emotional side of the horse-human partnership, covering everything from starting young horses fairly to correcting horses that have stopped cooperating. She takes horses in for Beritt and correction training, gives individual lessons, and runs courses and retreats for owners. Western riding is her main discipline.

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Hof Brummelbach

Neetze, Germany

Hof Brummelbach in Neetze is run by Stephanie Timmer, a qualified riding instructor with a background in special education. The yard gives riding lessons shaped around each rider and offers equine-assisted therapy aimed at development of the whole person. Programmes run for children with and without disabilities, including work with the horses from the ground rather than in the saddle. The youngest children start in the "Ponyzwerge" group, and lessons are kept to small groups of two or three.

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Islandpferdehof Landey

Nahrendorf, Germany

Hof Landey is a pedagogical and therapeutic Icelandic-horse yard at Pommoissel in the Göhrde area of Lower Saxony, run by qualified riding instructor and equine therapist Dorothea Tomaschek. It teaches children and young people, combining riding with groundwork, horse care and theory. Formats range from weekly group lessons graded by ability to intensive two-day monthly blocks and riding camps with twice-daily riding. Holiday accommodation on the farm is available for visiting families.

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Mainstreetstable Müden

Müden (Aller), Germany

Mainstreetstable is a western riding and livery yard at Müden an der Aller on the edge of the Südheide. Instruction is given in western riding as private lessons, in groups, or as training with the rider's own horse. Livery is offered as half or full board, with guest boxes and an allergy-friendly option, and trekking riders passing through can stable overnight. The yard sets out to give horses species-appropriate keeping, paying close attention to bedding, forage quality and turnout. Guided hacks through the Südheide and children's birthday parties round out the programme.

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Gestüt Merzdorf

Müden (Aller), Germany

Gestüt Merzdorf is a stud and riding yard at Müden an der Aller in Lower Saxony, led by Gabriele Merzdorf. She is a Pferdewirtschaftsmeisterin FN with a Trainer A licence and has won up-and-coming classes and competed to dressage class S on horses she trained herself. The yard breeds and sells horses with strong pedigrees and gives riding lessons on the premises. Livery is available in attractive indoor and outdoor boxes. A riding club is attached to the stud.

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Mit Pferden sein

Moringen, Germany

Mit Pferden sein is a horsemanship school at Moringen in southern Lower Saxony, founded by the biologist Sabine Birmann together with Dan Birmann. Rather than a training method it teaches an approach built on perception, reading equine body language, facial expression and behaviour so that horse and human can communicate on equal terms. The programme runs as day seminars, foundation courses, specialist seminars and intensive clinics, in German and in English, supported by video and telephone consultations. The associated Ippikon-Verlag publishes the school textbooks and working material.

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TGU Garthe

Moormerland, Germany

TGU Garthe, short for Tiergestützter Unterricht, is run by Sabine Garthe in Moormerland, East Frisia, and works with children through riding pedagogy rather than technical riding tuition alone. Sessions include play-based riding for children and young people, therapeutic riding for those with special needs, a pony club and relaxation riding. Group programmes are offered to schools and other institutions, along with children's birthday parties and hacks. Natural, species-appropriate handling of the horses underpins everything on offer, and courses also run with VFD Ostfriesland.

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Equigampo - Ganzheitliches Arbeiten mit Pferden Ostfriesland (Andrea Kotulla-Möhlmann)

Moormerland, Germany

Equigampo is a mobile riding-instruction and equine therapy business run by Andrea Kotulla-Möhlmann across East Frisia. Lessons follow a three-part teaching model covering theory, groundwork and ridden work, with the horse's health and correct movement as the starting point. Alongside teaching she offers equine physiotherapy and osteopathy for horses that need hands-on treatment. Clinics and courses are run at client yards throughout the northern districts she covers.

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Reitverein Petkum-Oldersum

Moormerland, Germany

Reitverein Petkum Oldersum e.V. is an East Frisian riding club founded in 1954 and based at Oldersum in Moormerland, with around 180 members. It teaches riding on club school horses and has both indoor and outdoor arenas for lessons and training. The hall can also be hired for use by groups. Its annual tournament is one of the larger fixtures in the region, drawing roughly 800 entries.

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Reitunterricht Inge Ditzel

Meppen, Germany

Reitunterricht Inge Ditzel is a mobile riding instruction business based in Meppen, in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. Inge Ditzel teaches riders of all ages and works across riding styles rather than a single discipline. Lessons are given at the client's own yard, and she also coaches teams for clubs and organisations. She prepares riders for the German motivation and performance badges, and works with prospective pupils who do not yet have a horse of their own to find a solution.

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Reit- und Erlebnishof Liebig

Meppen, Germany

The Reit- und Erlebnishof Liebig is a riding and activity yard on the edge of the woods at Meppen in the Emsland. It teaches children, teenagers and adults to ride, from complete beginners to returning riders, using two indoor schools with forest hacking on the doorstep. The youngest children start with led Ponyexpress sessions and pony familiarisation courses from around three years of age. The yard also offers therapeutic riding — riding education, riding therapy and hippotherapy — in cooperation with a local physiotherapy practice, alongside guided hacks and pony birthday parties.

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Reitpädagogik.Reitunterricht

Meppen, Germany

Reitpädagogik.Reitunterricht offers riding lessons and riding pedagogy for children in Meppen, Emsland. Sessions run on the owner's own pony on a quiet family arena, in small groups and a calm atmosphere. The focus is as much on mindful handling of the pony, trust and enjoyment as on riding technique itself. Mobile lessons are available, where the instructor comes to the client's own yard. Pricing is published openly and bookings are made by email, WhatsApp or the contact form.

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Martina Uhl

Meppen, Germany

Martina Uhl is a freelance riding instructor based in Meppen in the Emsland. She teaches riders of all ages without committing to a single discipline, putting the emphasis on seat training with and without the lunge and on the coordination a rider needs in order to give clear aids. Lessons cover classical school figures, cavaletti work, oval-track riding, groundwork and loading training, and she accompanies clients out on hacks. She also organises trail rides and longer riding treks.

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Odinshof

Melle, Germany

Odinshof is an Icelandic-horse yard at Werther in Westphalia, led by Lina Delius since 2014. The riding school teaches the Icelandic gaits on trained school horses in deliberately small groups, matching horse to rider, and welcomes beginners, returning riders and ambitious sport riders alike. An indoor school, an outdoor arena and good hacking country are available for lessons. The yard also keeps livery horses, integrating new arrivals into the herd carefully and under supervision, and takes horses in for schooling.

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Niedermühlenhof – Therapeutisches Reiten

Melle, Germany

Niedermühlenhof offers curative-educational work with horses (heilpädagogische Förderung mit dem Pferd) at Melle-Neuenkirchen in Lower Saxony. Sessions are built around individual therapeutic goals for children, adolescents, adults and whole families. The yard also runs an eight-week riding course for adults, a regular adult riding group and a Saturday pony club for children. The work is privately funded rather than covered by health insurance, and is supported by donations.

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