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Göttinger Birkenhof

Göttingen, Germany

Göttinger Birkenhof is a riding school and livery yard on the edge of Göttingen-Geismar in southern Lower Saxony. The yard teaches children, teenagers and adults to the German FN syllabus, from lead-rein and lunge lessons for absolute beginners through to work for advanced and returning riders. Horses are kept in open stabling and paddock boxes, with riding arenas and round pens on site. The farm also hosts childrens riding birthdays and offers guest rooms for visitors.

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Partnerpferde - Reittherapie & Ponyspaß

Gyhum, Germany

Partnerpferde offers equine-assisted therapy and pony activities for children and young people at Gyhum in Lower Saxony, run by Melina Cordes. Therapeutic riding is available from age three, including for children with special needs, alongside Ponyspaß recreational sessions and courses for children, teenagers and adults. The emphasis is on learning about horses through play and handling rather than on riding technique alone. Themed sessions such as birthday parties, Halloween rides, guided hacks and kindergarten group visits round out the programme, and riding helmets can be borrowed on site.

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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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PIANOVA Reitakademie

Großefehn, Germany

PIANOVA Reitakademie is a riding academy in the Großefehn moorland of East Frisia, run by Michael Sund. It offers riding courses and training for horse and rider, with an arena on site and long trails through the surrounding countryside for hacking out. A breeding stallion stands at the yard. Riders can stay on the premises in one of the holiday apartments or houses, and the academy runs parallel programmes for musicians, particularly pianists.

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ISHOF

Grasberg, Germany

ISHOF is an Icelandic-horse yard at Huxfeld between Grasberg and Fischerhude, north of Bremen, run by the Thordarson family. It combines a riding school with boarding, schooling and horse sales, keeping its horses on large pastures and in open stables. Riding lessons, courses and holiday clinics are offered for children and adults, and trail riding through the surrounding countryside is part of the daily routine. The yard also stands breeding stallions and regularly has horses available for sale.

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SB Horsetraining

Golmbach, Germany

SB Horsetraining is a western riding yard at Klappe in Warbsen, Lower Saxony, run by trainer Stefanie Bull. She teaches riders from complete beginners to advanced level, individually or in groups of up to four, on her own well-schooled Quarter Horses or on the rider's own horse. The yard also takes horses in for training, with an emphasis on a calm, force-free foundation education. Day and weekend clinics, riding-badge courses, children's holiday weeks, youth camps, share-horse arrangements and professional support at shows round out the programme.

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Trippel Trappel Hof gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Goldenstedt, Germany

Trippel-Trappel-Hof is a non-profit equine-assisted therapy and education yard in Goldenstedt, Lower Saxony, managed by Mandy Hibbeler. It offers riding therapy, riding pedagogy and horse-assisted development work for children, adolescents and adults, including participants with additional needs. Sessions run individually or in small groups with horses trained specifically for this work, and begin with an introductory appointment. The yard also hosts birthday parties for children built around contact with the horses.

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Sarah Lojewski - Ausbildung für Pferd & Mensch

Gleichen, Germany

Sarah Lojewski runs a horse-training and rider-education business in the Göttingen area of Lower Saxony. Her work covers the schooling of horses as well as behaviour training and consultation for horses with handling or trust problems. Owners are coached alongside their horses, and the programme is offered both as individual work and as course formats. Prices, conditions and course dates are published on her website.

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Dr. Wolfgang Preiser

Gleichen, Germany

Fellponygestüt Elbickerode, trading as Unity Fell Ponys, breeds Fell Ponies from English bloodlines at Elbickerode in the Gleichen municipality south of Göttingen. With around twenty ponies on the farm it is one of the larger Fell Pony breeding operations in Germany. Youngstock spend four years growing up in the herd and a further year in basic training before being offered for sale as dependable leisure partners. The yard also offers riding lessons, riding shares, care-horse arrangements and livery.

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Reitkunst Göttingen

Gleichen, Germany

Reitkunst Göttingen is the training practice of Denise Titze near Göttingen, combining classical riding art (Reitkunst) with the TTEAM and TTOUCH methods and Feldenkrais body awareness. Her teaching centres on body-conscious learning for both rider and horse, working from the principle that horses and people learn better without stress. Lessons cover ridden work as well as groundwork, lunging and in-hand work, with an emphasis on clear, consistent aids. TTOUCH bodywork sessions are offered for horses and also for dogs. She teaches individuals and runs courses, focusing on realistic goals, improved self-perception and attention to detail.

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Reit- und Ponyhof Rittmarshausen

Gleichen, Germany

Reit- und Ponyhof Rittmarshausen is a family-run riding school between Göttingen and Duderstadt, recognised as an approved riding establishment by the German Equestrian Federation (FN). Ten school horses and ponies carry pupils from the Reitkindergarten at age four, through lunge lessons from age six, into small group lessons of four riders arranged by age and experience. Lessons mix dressage, jumping and cross-country work with pony games, quadrille riding and agility courses, and adult beginners and returning riders are taught individually. The yard has an indoor arena, two outdoor arenas including one of 1,500 sqm, direct access to fields and forest for hacking, a heated riders' room and a tack room. It runs an annual riding festival and regular riding-badge courses.

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VivaMotion

Glandorf, Germany

VivaMotion is the riding-training practice of Vivian Mulckhuijse in Glandorf, combining equestrian instruction with a physiotherapy background. The focus is the rider seat and body awareness — balance, posture and conscious movement — so that horse and rider communicate more clearly. Alongside work in the saddle she offers rider fitness and seat schooling, plus groundwork with the horse. Clinics and lectures are run regularly, and lessons are also given at client yards across the region.

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Sara Bernstein - Pferdetraining

38518 Gifhorn, Germany

Sara Bernstein - Pferdetraining is a mobile horse-training business based in Gifhorn, Lower Saxony. Sara-Maya Bernstein starts and educates young horses, works on corrective and behavioural retraining, and coaches owners in handling their own horses. Further offerings include desensitisation and hacking-out training as well as mobile riding lessons at the client's own yard. Her approach was shaped by working with horses in Australia and is presented as fair and sustainable schooling.

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Reitsportanlage Eichenhof

Gifhorn, Germany

Reitsportanlage Eichenhof is a family-run riding facility in the centre of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony. It offers relaxed, pressure-free lessons for children from the age of six as well as lunge and group lessons for teenagers and adults. Riding holidays run during the school breaks and boxes are available for boarders. Everything sits on one compact site with stables, turnout paddocks, an indoor school and an outdoor arena, and open hacking country begins directly behind. The riding club RG Eichenhof e.V. is based at the yard.

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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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Barbara Bensmann

Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

Barbara Bensmann teaches natural horsemanship in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, working in the tradition of Pat Parelli. The focus is on building a trusting, communicative partnership between horse and handler through ground work and ridden work. Horses are taken in for training and rehabilitation, and riders are coached individually towards the same harmony-based approach. Handmade American western saddles are also sold from the yard.

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Pferdefreunde Brückenhof

Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

Pferdefreunde Brückenhof is a small riding yard run by Monika Werner on the Brückenhof in Georgsmarienhütte, Lower Saxony. The yard gives riding instruction and runs a vaulting group, and its horses live out on open pasture. Alongside the horses the farm keeps goats, pigs and other animals, so younger visitors get a broad introduction to farm and stable life. The business is contactable by phone or e-mail; its website is currently being rebuilt.

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Andreas Hinkelbein

Geestland, Germany

Andreas Hinkelbein runs a breeding and training yard at Ringstedt near Bremerhaven in Lower Saxony. The business breeds sport horses and presents its own foals, youngstock and broodmares. Alongside the breeding operation the yard schools horses and trains riders, with separate programmes for each. Horses bred and produced on the premises are offered for sale directly from the yard.

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Moheba-Gestüt

Geestland, Germany

Moheba-Gestüt is an Arabian horse breeding and training centre at Langen near Bremerhaven, run by Dr. med. vet. Jutta Ginsel and Willi Ewen. The stud has bred straight Egyptian Arabians for more than thirty years and has also produced Arabian-Berbers since 2003. It stands stallions at its own covering station, raises and sells young stock, and trains both horses and riders. The yard additionally sells selected riding equipment and hand-made leather goods.

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Araber Reit- und Ausbildungszentrum

Geestland, Germany

The Araber Reit- und Ausbildungszentrum near Bremerhaven has bred straight Egyptian Arabians for more than 30 years and Arab-Barb horses since 2003. Stallions, mares and foals from the stud's own breeding programme are presented on the yard and offered for sale. The centre also schools horses and trains riders on the premises. Alongside the equestrian side it makes hand-crafted leather goods and sells a selected range of riding equipment and accessories.

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Reit- und Therapiezentrum Gaby Köser

Geestland, Germany

Reit- und Therapiezentrum Gaby Köser is an equestrian and therapy centre at Spadener Weg in the Debstedt district of Geestland, Lower Saxony. It offers hippotherapy alongside riding instruction on the centre's own horses. Gaby Köser also provides physiotherapy and osteopathy for horses and dogs at the centre. The business is run in tandem with her physiotherapy and naturopathy practice in nearby Bremerhaven.

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Marschalk-Pecksen

Geestland, Germany

Reit- und Zuchtbetrieb Marschalk-Pecksen is a family-run riding and breeding yard at Elmlohe near Geestland in Lower Saxony. The yard trains both riders and horses, keeps a string of school horses and publishes a weekly lesson timetable for riders at every level. It also offers livery for privately owned horses and runs its own breeding programme, with broodmares kept in regular light work well into pregnancy. Horses bred and produced on the farm are offered for sale.

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Reitsportverein Neuenwalde e.V.

Geestland, Germany

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.

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Islandpferde-Hölterhof

Geeste, Germany

Islandpferde Hölterhof is an Icelandic-horse breeding yard and riding school at Dalum in Geeste, Emsland, run by Manfred Krüssel and in operation for more than forty years. The farm breeds from its own stallions and mares, raises youngstock and sells both trained and untrained horses. Certified instructors give riding lessons on the yard and at riders own premises, and external courses run through the year. Guided hacks through the surrounding Emsland countryside and boarding in boxes or at pasture complete the offer.