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Riding schools

Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.

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Johanna Thanheiser

Graf Geroldstraße, 3392 Dunkelsteinerwald, Austria

Johanna Thanheiser is a riding instructor and horse trainer in Lower Austria focused on keeping horses healthy. She offers mobile riding lessons, online riding lessons, video feedback and online courses. Her Equisensomotoric training method targets core strength, straightness, joint stability and muscle building. It draws on biomechanics research and classical, baroque and working-equitation riding traditions.

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Maa! REITERer!

Weinstraße 10, 3492 Etsdorf am Kamp, Austria

Maa! REITERer! is a riding pedagogy practice run by Maria Reiterer at Mellis Ponyhof in Hadersdorf am Kamp. Children aged 6 to 10, and teenagers individually, learn to ride and to handle, groom and care for horses safely and fairly. Sessions last 90 minutes, once a week or more, with at most four children per group. The horses include a Hanoverian and an Austrian Warmblood suited to working with children.

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Sonnwendhof Zogelsdorf

Zogelsdorf 8, 3730 Burgschleinitz-Kühnring, Austria

Sonnwendhof is a riding yard in Zogelsdorf, Austria. It offers riding lessons, booked through a dedicated riding-lesson phone line. The yard is listed as a riding school for Icelandic horses.

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Islandpferde Stefanihof

Alte Str. 79, 3552 Stratzing, Austria

Islandpferde Stefanihof is an Icelandic horse yard in Stratzing, Austria. It runs a riding school for leisure riders, competition riders, beginners and children, and offers horse boarding and training rides. The yard breeds its own Icelandic horses and sells horses ranging from family horses to competition five-gaiters. It also organises youth camps and offers BEMER sessions.

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S-Dressur

3383 Hürm, Austria

S-Dressur is the dressage training business of Barbara Sutter in Lower Austria. It offers training rides for horses, individual lessons both mobile and at her own stable, and online coaching. Day and weekend courses are available on request. Her focus is on bringing young horses from starting under saddle to their first competition successes, and she also takes on correction and further training of educated horses.

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Gestüt Equitamus

Gföhleramt 29, 3542 Gföhl, Austria

Gestüt Equitamus is a family farm in Gföhl that has bred dressage horses since 1998. Young horses are raised, started under saddle and either sold or competed by the owner, a dressage rider. The farm offers riding lessons from first rides to competition starts and a pony programme for children. A riding club and a pony club association are based at the farm.

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Thinking Outside The Box

Mühlberg 1, 4342 Baumgartenberg, Austria

Thinking Outside The Box is a riding yard at the Erlebnis Farm in Baumgartenberg run by Magdalena Kapplmüller. It offers individual and group riding lessons and learning sessions with horses. Riders can also take a care share or a part-loan on a horse, and a horse trailer is available for rent. The founder holds diplomas in animal-assisted intervention and systemic animal training.

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Pferdehof Kurzmann

3911 Rappottenstein, Austria

Pferdehof Kurzmann is a horse farm in Pirkenreith near Rappottenstein in the Waldviertel. It offers hacks, trail rides and star rides from the farm, with or without your own horse, and overnight stops for riders and horses. Riding lessons for children and adults, horsemanship and western riding courses, and hippotherapy are offered. The farm also boards horses in an open stable with paddocks, an arena and a round pen.

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Julia Schmidberger

3323 Neustadtl an der Donau, Austria

Julia Schmidberger is a horse trainer based in Kematen an der Krems, Austria. She trains riders with their own horses or on her experienced school horses, working ridden, in hand and on the lunge. Her methods include classical groundwork, Equikinetic, dual activation and flag work, with individual training plans. She also runs a boarding yard (Einstellbetrieb).

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Melanie Reidinger

97VJ+J9, 2105 Unterrohrbach, Austria

Melanie Reidinger runs her own riding facility north of Vienna in Unterrohrbach. She offers livery places for horses, schooling of horses and riding lessons. Lessons have been offered since 2015 in dressage, show jumping and circus work, for beginners and advanced riders. She is a state-certified dressage trainer and an international show rider.

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Michael Laußegger

Vordere Dorfstraße 19, 2125 Streifing, Austria

Michael Laußegger trains riders and horses according to the principles of classical dressage. The stated aim of his work is harmony between rider and horse. He offers riding lessons as well as schooling of young horses in training, both built on classical dressage principles. He is based in Streifing, Austria.

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Liberty Ranch

Hofgartenstraße 1022/1, 2122 Ulrichskirchen-Schleinbach, Austria

Liberty Ranch is a non-profit riding club (UNION-Reitverein) based at a stable in Ulrichskirchen, Lower Austria. It runs a riding school with semester courses, holiday camps and children's birthday parties. It also offers horse-assisted coaching and a riding coach programme. The club promotes equestrian sport for all age groups and holds competitions and events.

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Pferdewelt Equicale

C6J8+JVX, 2011 Hatzenbach, Austria

Pferdewelt Equicale is a riding and therapy association at a small horse farm in Hatzenbach near Stockerau. It offers HIPS therapeutic riding for children, adolescents and adults. Its riding education programme supports children's motor skills, perception and confidence through work with and on the horse. Trail rides are also offered.

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Schmidt-Gentner Reitstall

Maisbirbaum 31, 2115 Ernstbrunn, Austria

Schmidt-Gentner Reitstall is a riding yard in Maisbirbaum in the Weinviertel, opened in 2020. It boards horses in 27 boxes with twice-daily hay, daily bedding and concentrate feed three times a day. Alongside boarding, the team offers jumping and dressage lessons, training of show jumpers and buying and selling of horses. The yard is run by Katharina Schmidt-Gentner, a state-certified show-jumping trainer and competition rider.

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Fiona Knödler

Grillparzgasse 12, 3434 Wilfersdorf, Austria

Fiona Knödler is a mobile riding instructor who teaches dressage at the rider's own stable. Individual lessons last about 40 minutes, with package rates available. She also offers advice on equipment, preparation for exams and competitions, and training plans between lessons. Competition accompaniment is available and transport can be organised on request.

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Ponyhelden

Lindenstraße bei Tulln AT, Frauenhofen 99, 3430 Tulln an der Donau, Austria

Ponyhelden is a pony school for riding pedagogy in Frauenhofen near Tulln. It runs Lolino riding-pedagogy sessions for children from age three and vaulting for children from age six. Offerings include small-group courses, individual and sibling lessons, sensory-support sessions, a Ponyhelden licence course, children's birthday parties and pony days. Children learn pony care, handling and led riding through play.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Leiser Berge

Pyhra 3, 2152 Pyhra, Austria

Reit- und Fahrverein Leiser Berge is a riding and driving club in Pyhra in the Leiser Berge nature park, Austria, founded in 2024. It offers guided trail rides of one to two hours on horses and ponies suitable for beginners and children from about four years old. The club provides riding pedagogy for children and adults at all levels. It also breeds horses and raises its own foals.

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Fein Reiten

3430 Tulln an der Donau, Austria

Fein Reiten is run by Victoria Körösszegi near Tulln an der Donau, Austria. She is a trained animal physiotherapist, freelance trainer and riding instructor. She offers riding lessons and in-hand work based on classical riding principles, focusing on suppleness, balance and fine aids. Her physiotherapy background is used to recognise tension and movement restrictions and to adapt training to the horse and rider.

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Dressurstall Minichhofen

Minichhofen 30, 3720 Ravelsbach, Austria

Dressage yard in Minichhofen in the Weinviertel run by Michael and Renate Nachförg. It trains and corrects horses of all breeds following classical riding principles and the Hand-Sattel-Hand method. Services include schooling, holiday schooling, terrain training, courses and joint lessons for owners and their horses. It also takes rehab and livery horses.

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Reitsport Viki

4222 Georgen an der Gusen, Austria

Reitsport Viki offers riding lessons in the English style on the Hauser family horse farm at the Sperlhof in St. Georgen an der Gusen. Lessons are run by qualified instructor Viktoria Hauser, who has competed in dressage up to class M, with support from Selina Peneder. Riding lessons are available for children from age 7, beginners and advanced riders, covering leisure and competition riding. The farm also keeps livery horses.

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bAUERnhof

Mitterbach 10, 4264 Grünbach, Austria

bAUERnhof is a family horse farm run by Manuel and Elisabeth Auer in Mitterbach near Freistadt. It offers holistic riding lessons in the FEBS format for children aged three to eight and GRIPS for older children and adults. The farm has five boxes for livery horses, summer grazing paddocks and a riding arena for its boarders. It also offers carriage rides.

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Pferdefreunde Altenberg

4209 Engerwitzdorf, Austria

Pferdefreunde Altenberg is a riding club near Altenberg in Upper Austria, registered with the regional riding and driving federation since 1992. Members use a club riding arena in Willersdorf. The club arranges riding lessons with several instructors and organises rides, tournaments, working equitation training and social events.

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Ponyoase

Grubenmühlstraße 22, 2130 Ebendorf, Austria

Ponyoase is run by the association Verein Pferdeoase in Ebendorf, Lower Austria, and specialises in natural keeping and handling of equines living in herds. Most of its animals are rescued from poor conditions and are rehabilitated and trained in an extended horsemanship approach. It offers horse-assisted education for children and riding lessons with ponies. Supporters can sponsor animals or become members and take on a care horse.

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Legapony

Hauptstraße 68, 2123 Ulrichskirchen-Schleinbach, Austria

Legapony is a riding and breeding yard in Kronberg, Lower Austria, founded by riding instructor Sabine Fürst. It offers riding lessons for children and adults of all levels, with one or two pupils per session, plus longer hacks. A specialty is dyslexia training that combines classic learning support with riding education, using the horse as a learning partner. The yard also teaches vaulting, breeds horses, sells horses and stands a breeding stallion at stud.

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