Competition prep, sale prep and schooling — find a program that brings a horse on.
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Dressurstall Sandbrink is a dressage training and sales stable at Päse near Meinersen, founded by Stefan Sandbrink and Dr. Kerstin Klieber. The yard schools dressage horses and licensed stallions and sells them to clients in Germany and abroad. Riding instruction is offered alongside riding holidays for guests. Facilities include a 20 x 60 m indoor school and a 20 x 60 m outdoor dressage arena, both available to hire.
Reiterhof Köhler is a family-run equestrian farm at Mechtersen near Lüneburg. It offers horse boarding with stabling, pastures and access to an indoor school and outdoor arena, which can also be booked by outside riders. The farm breeds and raises dressage and eventing horses, rearing its own young stock on the property. Cross-country schooling facilities and extensive local hacking terrain are available on the doorstep. The yard is run personally by Lars-Johann Köhler.
Suzan Beuk is an Icelandic horse trainer and instructor based at Marxen, south of Hamburg. An IPZV trainer since 1989 and instructor since 1994, she gives individual lessons and small group sessions of no more than five riders, and takes horses in for schooling. Her approach puts a harmonious partnership between horse and rider ahead of quick competition results. She also breeds and sells Icelandic horses, runs IPZV certification courses, seminars and clinics, coaches young riders and teaches on the road at other yards.
Islandpferdepension Familie Eckhoff is an Icelandic-horse livery yard in Marxen, south of Hamburg on the edge of the Lüneburger Heide. Boarding ranges from group keeping in an open stable through to individual boxes in a round barn, with a separate option for stallions. The yard is run by agricultural engineer Eva-Barbara Eckhoff and a trained team, who also advise owners on feeding and horse care. Riders have an arena, guest paddocks and extensive hacking country directly on the doorstep. An IPZV-qualified trainer offers horse schooling and riding instruction on site.
Pferdetraining Winter is Jenny Winter training and wellness practice for horses in Martfeld, Lower Saxony. Training programmes are built around movement quality, muscle development and mental relaxation, with Dual-Aktivierung as a core method. She also offers rehabilitation training and muscle-building work for horses coming back from a layoff. Bodywork rounds out the service: therapeutic massage, peat-stamp massage and cold and heat therapy with moor. Courses and equine photography are available alongside the training work.
De Paddloepers is the yard of trainer Inga Schnelle in Martfeld, between Bremen and Nienburg. Riding instruction here starts from the horse's health and biomechanics, working towards a seat and a way of going that horse and rider can sustain, with tensegrity training used alongside ridden work. Children from about four are taught through the HIPPOLINI® method, which builds confidence and horsemanship before conventional riding lessons. Horses are kept in a paddock trail system that encourages constant natural movement, and the yard also takes horses for schooling and for training-based rehabilitation. Inga additionally gives external lectures, courses and training days.
Pensionsstall Rönner Elbwiesen is a livery yard on the Elbe meadows at Rönne, part of Marschacht in Lower Saxony. Boxes are available in an older and a newer stable block, alongside sand paddocks with daily service, day-and-night summer grazing and separate four-hour turnout for mares and geldings. The facility includes a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a floodlit 20 x 40 m outdoor arena, a jumping field, a lunging ring and a wash bay, and hacking country starts directly at the yard. Full and part schooling of horses can be arranged, and the yard suits competition and leisure riders alike.
Mobiles Gelassenheitstraining is a travelling horse-training business run by Marleen Schwarz from Lüneburg in northern Germany. Its core offering is Gelassenheitstraining, systematic desensitisation work that builds a horse confidence and trust around traffic, obstacles, noise and unfamiliar objects. Marleen also runs horse-assisted coaching for people, combining groundwork, ridden work and free interaction to explore communication and leadership. Training is delivered on site at the client own yard, alongside scheduled course dates and a podcast.
Mia Blochwitz is a certified EQS instructor teaching natural horsemanship from Vierhöfen in the Lüneburg district. She works with riders and their own horses on groundwork and ridden work, building confidence and mutual respect between horse and handler. Teaching is mostly one to one, and she also runs scheduled courses through the year. The focus is on practical horsemanship skills rather than competition training.
Hof Rabeler is a boarding and training stable run by Britta Rabeler, a qualified equestrian professional. Horses are kept in outdoor boxes, indoor stalls and run-in boxes, with daily turnout on paddock or pasture as standard and summer grazing available. An FN-licensed trainer teaches beginners and advanced riders on their own or the yard's horses. Horses are schooled and developed on site, including young-horse work and preparation for mare performance tests, and are presented at competition on request. The facilities include an arena with a dressage school, a lungeing circle and high-fenced paddocks suitable for stallions.
Nýpahof is an Icelandic-horse stud in Lüdersburg east of Lüneburg, run by Laura and Steve Köster. The yard breeds Icelandic horses, stands its own stallions and regularly has trained sale horses on offer. Schooling (Beritt) and riding lessons are available for horses and riders at every level, and boarding places are offered on the farm. The Kösters also supply riding equipment made for Icelandic horses.
Reitsportzentrum Brundiers is a riding centre in Löningen-Ehren, Lower Saxony, run by Anne Brundiers. Instruction covers dressage, jumping and cross-country for riders from school-pony beginners through to competitors, taught by trainers with tournament experience. The centre keeps livery horses and runs clinics and riding-badge courses through the year. Events and tournaments are hosted in cooperation with the local riding club, and a solarium horse trailer is available for hire.
Sportpferde Ottens is a training and sales stable in Loxstedt, Lower Saxony, managed by Amelie Ottens. The yard puts correct, systematic schooling at the centre of its work with young and advanced sport horses. Horses are produced on the premises and offered for sale to competition and leisure riders. The facility, references from past clients and the current sales list are presented on the website.
Reitsportanlage BP is a dressage yard near Bremerhaven run by Marco Bührig and Tatjana Piontek. The business schools horses under saddle and teaches dressage from novice level up to Grand Prix, with facilities built to allow training in any weather. Trained dressage horses are produced and offered for sale, and full livery with daily turnout is available. The yard also hosts dressage clinics, seminars and competitions.
Ausbildungsstall André Rademacher is a training yard in Lohne, Lower Saxony, led by a certified master horseman working in the classical tradition. Horses and ponies are taken in for dressage and jumping schooling, lungeing and double-lunge work, ground work and free-jumping assessment. Riders can book lessons and clinics, and horses are prepared and presented for sale. Video documentation of training progress and judging services round out the offering.
FM-Sportpferde is a sport-horse training and sales yard in Lohne, Lower Saxony, run by Matthias Börger. Horses are schooled individually for dressage and show jumping and prepared for competition, performance testing and stallion licensing. The yard presents horses at shows and breed inspections on behalf of their owners. Alongside training client horses, FM-Sportpferde markets talented young sport horses to an international clientele.
Engelbert Sporthorses GmbH is a dressage yard at Lingen (Ems) run by Markus Engelbert. The business breeds, trains and markets dressage horses, and matches riders from amateur through to professional level with a suitable partner. Training covers both horse and rider, so a horse can be prepared alongside the person who will ride it. The horses stand at the Reitanlage Herzford in Lingen-Schepsdorf, where viewings are arranged by appointment.
Stall Osterkamp is a family yard in Liener near Lindern, Lower Saxony, run by Helmut and Bernd Osterkamp, the latter a qualified FN Bereiter. The stable accompanies a horse through its whole early life, from the foal and the birth of the next generation to the finished competition horse. Breeding and rearing sit alongside the schooling of young horses and show jumpers. The yard also takes livery horses and works with a regular veterinary team on site.
Leevster Hof is an active-stable yard at Lilienthal near Bremen run by Anne-Kathrin Schleufe-Glandorf, specialising in Icelandic horses and other rare breeds. Livery is organised around species-appropriate group housing with free movement rather than individual boxes. The yard gives riding tuition and takes horses in for schooling, and runs individual training programmes built around each horse. Rehabilitation work and osteopathic treatment are offered alongside the training side.
Reiten im Grünen is Amrei Timm's riding school in the Hollerland countryside on the edge of Bremen. Qualified as a Trainer C for competitive riding, she teaches beginners, returning riders and more advanced riders across all age groups. Lessons are given on the yard's own horses, with the emphasis on schooling horse and rider together. The yard also runs seasonal riding activities and offers alongside the regular lesson programme.
Islandpferdehof ViHara is an Icelandic-horse yard at Vierhausen near Lilienthal, just outside Bremen, run by Jana Scherenberger. She is an IPZV Trainer B, an API examiner and a Hestadagar judge, and teaches either on the yard horses or on the riders own horse. The yard takes horses in for schooling (Beritt) and offers boarding as well as courses and clinics. Scherenberger also assesses Icelandic horses and advises buyers, and sale horses are offered from the yard.
Reitstall Lucas is a family-run livery yard at Sudderweh in Lengerich, Lower Saxony, where the emphasis is on keeping horses in harmony with nature. The yard offers full boarding, professional schooling (Beritt) and an aqua trainer for conditioning and rehabilitation work. Horses are worked across dressage, jumping and western riding, and the surrounding countryside opens onto long hacking routes. The family also lets a holiday apartment on the yard and hosts occasional events.
Ankerhof Natürlich-fair-Pferd is a horse training yard and activity farm at Volzendorf in the Lemgow, Lower Saxony. The training is built on natural, fair methods, and the yard takes horses in for schooling, offers training placements and runs courses and workshops. A second strand is the activity farm, with pony sessions, holiday programmes, children's birthday parties, animal encounters and animal sponsorships. There is also a campsite and a trail-riding station for riders travelling through.
Wegener Sporthorses is the Wegener family's sport horse yard at Lembruch on the Dümmer lake in Lower Saxony, with a particular focus on ponies. The business schools and produces horses and ponies and trains their riders, and sells produced horses to private buyers. Livery and use of the yard's facilities are available to clients. The family also hosts small-group riding and nature holidays on the farm.
