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Reitanlage Bösch is a large livery and riding facility at Neu Wulmstorf, just south of Hamburg, run by Mareike Hoops. The yard offers 63 paddock boxes, two indoor schools, a horse solarium, a horse walker and around ten hectares of pasture. The scale and equipment suit leisure riders and horses in regular work alike. The surrounding countryside gives direct access to hacking.
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.
Pferdepension Nenndorf is a horse boarding yard on a traditional farm in Nenndorf, part of the Samtgemeinde Holtriem in East Frisia, run by its current owners since August 2018. Horses are kept in bright, airy boxes or in an open stable, with sand and hardstanding paddocks, large pastures and small settled groups. The yard has a floodlit 40 x 20 m sand arena, a solarium, a tack room and a riders lounge, and feeds premium hay and straw around the clock. It is run alongside the owners main occupations, with a transparent boarding contract for every horse.
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.
Westernranch Hahnenhorn is a small western-style yard at Hahnenhorn near Müden an der Aller, in the southern Lüneburg Heath. It runs as a Wanderreitstation, offering day stabling in an open barn to riders travelling through the region. Silke Stange also teaches horse communication and natural horsemanship in individual sessions worked entirely from the ground. Guest rooms, canoe trips on the Aller and Oker and campfire evenings round out a stay, and dogs are welcome.
Zum Thielen-Hof is a family farm near Müden an der Aller that keeps boarding horses alongside its agricultural work. Horses live outdoors in herd groups the whole year on around 17 hectares of pasture, with climate-controlled stabling available in extreme weather. Boxes are cleaned daily and each horse is fed individually, while young horses are kept together in an open-stall group. The farm also runs a small hobby breeding programme producing up to four foals a year.
Aktivstall im Allertal is an active-stable livery yard at Gerstenbüttel in the Aller valley, running since 2008. Horses are kept as one herd across more than 2,500 square metres of separated functional areas on the HIT Aktivstall system, so they move continuously between resting, feeding and watering zones. Automatic concentrate and roughage stations dispense small, individually configured rations around the clock, and adjoining pasture is available in season. The yard takes on the full daily care of the horses so that owners can spend their time riding and handling rather than mucking out.
Reitstall Kemper is a horse boarding stable located in Meppen, Germany. It offers horse pensions and is situated at Dalumer Str. 53. The business is noted for its friendly staff and positive overall impression, according to visitor reviews.
Reit- & Pensionsstall Bölle is a livery and riding yard in Meppen, Emsland, with stabling for up to 35 horses. The site has a 60 x 20 m indoor school with an irrigation system, secured individual paddocks, a lunge ring, summer pastures and winter turnout. Riders have direct access to hacking routes through the surrounding fields, meadows and woodland. The yard is run to current German equestrian husbandry standards with an emphasis on individual horse care.
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.
Hof Hagemann-Krystosek at Neuenkirchen near Melle is a livery yard with room for around 75 horses and ponies, run straw-free since 2017 with hay fed ad lib. Boarding options include paddock boxes, a HIT active stable, open stabling in small herds and large indoor boxes with self-care. Riders have a 20 × 40 m indoor school with mirrors, a 16 m lungeing hall, a 2,500 m² groundwork area, a floodlit dressage arena and a 35 × 70 m floodlit jumping arena, plus cross-country trails into the forest. For the horses there is a brine-oxygen inhalation chamber, a warm-water solarium and wash bay, a horse scale and trail-training obstacles, and seminars and courses run through the year.
Sutmühlenhof is a livery and riding yard on the Sutmühlenstraße near Melle in Lower Saxony. It offers horse boarding in a range of box types, with an indoor school, outdoor arenas and direct access to hacking country. Riding instruction is available through instructors based at the yard, and group hacks are organised for liveries. A Reiterstübchen common room gives riders and their families a place to gather, and the farm also breeds and sells horses.
Sonnenhof Kollmeyer is a family-run Icelandic horse stud set on a 280-year-old farm between the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehengebirge near Melle. The yard breeds and sells Icelandic horses and offers livery, riding instruction, backing and further training. A dedicated wellness wing provides an aqua treadmill, salt-air inhalation, a vibration treadmill, solarium and BEMER therapy for horses in work or rehabilitation. Guest accommodation and a small shop round out the visit for owners and riders.
5B Ranch is a western riding yard in Rödinghausen, East Westphalia, built around reining and western horsemanship. The facility offers livery in 3 x 4 m boxes with attached paddocks, around three hectares of small-group turnout, a 25 x 50 m indoor arena on a reining surface, a drained 20 x 40 m outdoor arena and a 16 m round pen. Boxes can be rented with or without mucking out, and the indoor arena is also available to hire by outside riders. The ranch hosts weekend reining clinics taught in small groups by guest trainers, and provides wash bays, a heated rug room, tack lockers and a riders' lounge.
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.
Reitschule Mechtersen e.V. is a family-run riding school and boarding yard at Mechtersen near Lüneburg, run as a registered club since 1971. It teaches riders of every level across all disciplines and schools horses alongside them. The site has an indoor school, dressage and jumping arenas, an equine solarium, paddocks, pasture and open stabling. Horses and ponies are sold from the yard, and the surrounding terrain includes a cross-country course.
Reitanlage Hof Tönns is an FN-certified five-star livery yard at Marxen, about 30 km south of Hamburg near the Thieshope motorway exit, in operation since 2006. Horses are kept in generously sized boxes with paddocks and daily turnout, bedded on straw, and are fed hay or haylage two to three times a day plus oats or muesli three times. The facility has a riding hall, a dressage arena, a jumping arena, a lunging hall and a horse walker, along with a solarium and two wash bays with heated water. The yard administers veterinary medication, runs an annual worming programme and notifies owners by SMS if there is a health concern. Trailer parking and summer grazing are part of the offer.
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.
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.
Gestüt Hagewede is a sport-horse breeding operation run by the Heidmeyer family at Hagewede near Marl in Lower Saxony, under the motto "horse breeding out of passion". The stud keeps its own band of broodmares and raises the resulting foals and young horses on the farm. Homebred horses are offered for sale directly from the yard. Foaling and rearing places are also available to outside breeders, with a grazing season from May to October and daily checks. The pastures lie directly at the farm.
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.
Reit- & Ferienhof Laubach is a riding and holiday farm at Rehbeck near Lüchow, in the Wendland region of Lower Saxony. The farmhouse dates from 1886 and sits in a traditional Rundling village on the edge of the Lucie forest. The riding side of the business offers lessons, riding courses and Reitabzeichen badge training, an indoor school and a competition arena, plus dressage, jumping, vaulting and hacking. It provides livery and guest boxes for visiting horses, and also runs riding for people with physical or learning disabilities as well as carriage drives. Riding holidays for children, young people and adults are the farm's main season business.
