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Nice & Quiet is a reining horse breeding and training operation run by Lena Marie Nordhausen at Helvesiek in Lower Saxony. The yard breeds from its own broodmares and raises youngstock with reining performance in mind. Weanlings, yearlings, two- and three-year-olds and older horses are offered for sale. Horses are trained on the premises, and visitors are welcome by appointment.
Team Kiefernhof is a western riding yard near Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, run by Bettina Woitzyk. Lessons are open to anyone who likes horses, with or without a horse of their own, from nervous first-timers to leisure riders and those starting out on the show circuit. The yard also starts and schools horses, with a strong emphasis on groundwork in the round pen, on the trail course and out in the country. Quarter Horses are bred and occasionally offered for sale, and the team will help clients look for a suitable horse.
Springpferde Heinsohn is a show-jumping yard in Boitzen near Heeslingen, Lower Saxony, run by Anja Heinsohn. The stable buys, schools and sells jumping horses, producing them up to advanced S*** level. Alongside the sales horses the team coaches its own students and presents horses at shows. Horses in training are looked after individually, with the current sales list and competition results published on the website.
PferdeBewusstSein is the training practice of Helena Biere at Anderten in Heemsen, Lower Saxony. She works holistically with horse and handler, building a trust-based relationship through conscious communication, correct gymnastic work and mindful horsemanship. Alongside on-site training she takes one or two horses a year for longer training placements, and runs learning groups, courses, seminars and programmes for children. Remote support is available through video analysis and telephone consultation, and she also offers animal communication and accompaniment for trauma-resolution work.
Hof Johannsmann, trading as MJ European Sporthorses, is a family-run breeding and training yard at Hasbergen led by Marc Johannsmann. It breeds performance-bred sport horses and accompanies each one from foal through rearing to competition. Training plans are written individually for every horse, for both dressage and jumping. The yard also presents horses at competition on their owners' behalf.
Ariane Wester-Ebbinghaus teaches dressage on classical principles from Haren in the Emsland. She works with riders of every age and performance level, from leisure riders through to competitors at advanced (S) level. Her training builds on balance, relaxation and the classical training scale, with the goal of harmony between horse and rider. She is also an FN-licensed judge and mentors other trainers in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Sportpferde Tieben is a family operation in Haren an der Ems that has bred, schooled, bought and sold sport horses for over 30 years. The stable specialises in show jumpers, hunters, equitation horses and ponies, and keeps a large selection available at a range of training levels. Horses produced or sold by the Tieben family have gone on to win from pony hunter classes up to Grand Prix show jumping around the world. Buyers describe what they are looking for and the team helps match them to a suitable horse.
Stall Csaba Sarközi is the training yard of Hungarian-born professional rider and instructor Csaba Sarközi in Hanstedt, Lower Saxony, who moved to Germany in 1999. The stable schools young horses and presents them at competitions, with a particular specialism in eventing horses. Corrective work for horses with gaps or problems in their training is a further focus. Sarközi also teaches riding lessons and runs clinics in Germany and Hungary, including work with the Hungarian youth development programme.
Islandpferde vom Lührshoff is a boarding yard at Nindorf in the Hanstedt area of the Lüneburg Heath, run by Stefanie Haake, with around fifty Icelandic horses kept in small open-stable groups. Separate groups are run for mares, geldings, senior horses and horses with metabolic conditions, and the yard handles supplementary feeding and medication. Facilities include two dressage arenas, a natural oval track, a lunging circle and a gallop track, with extensive hacking through the surrounding heath. Schooling and riding lessons are available, the yard arranges farrier and veterinary visits, and courses, rallies and social events run through the year.
Scuderia Hanstedt is a family-run equestrian centre in the Lüneburg Heath at Hanstedt, Lower Saxony. It offers full livery in several box types, with feeding, bedding and daily care handled by qualified staff. Riding instruction covers dressage and jumping, and a riding school with school horses serves children and adults. Horses are also taken in for professional training and coaching, clinics and events are held on site, and hacking country is directly accessible from the yard.
Antje Koch is a horse behaviour trainer based in Hannover, working on the partnership between horse and handler through motivation, trust and respect. She reads and uses the horse's own communication through energy and body language rather than force. Her work covers groundwork on the lead rope, liberty work, loading training, desensitisation and spook-proofing, problem horses, starting young horses and circus tricks. Behavioural consultations are offered in person and online with video analysis.
Reithalle Lippoldshausen, trading as Ausbildungsstall Duchac, is a sport-horse training yard at Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony, represented by Patricia Duchac. It offers full livery in its own stabling with a complete care package for the horse. Schooling and backing of sport horses is its core service, together with competition presentation by the yard's riders and clipping, grooming and general horse care. Riding lessons are given on site. The yard also brokers sale horses, including international placements.
Reitclub Königshofer Heide e.V. is a dressage-focused club and training yard at Sittensen in Lower Saxony. Riders are coached on the club's own facility, and the trainer's pupils compete regularly at regional level. Horses are schooled on the yard through to competition standard. Produced horses are also offered for sale.
Nasrin Diermeier is an FN Trainer B who schools riding horses and teaches on a mobile basis around Hessisch Oldendorf in Lower Saxony, travelling to clients' own yards. Her work follows the German training scale and covers backing and starting young horses, corrective schooling and gymnastic jump training. Lessons are offered to children and adults, alongside in-hand work, long-reining, liberty work, behaviour training and loading training. Pricing is quoted on request, with a fuel-cost share depending on distance.
Reha-Stall Danecki is a natural horsemanship and rehabilitation yard in Leezdorf, East Frisia, run by Nastasia Danecki. The work is built on reading a horse's natural behaviour and psychology, establishing leadership through body language, trust and respect rather than force. Services cover schooling and education, trailer-loading training, courses and the rehabilitation of problem horses, alongside general soundness and conditioning work. The approach is discipline-neutral and benefits leisure and competition riders alike.
AM Quarter Horses is Andreas Martin's Foundation Quarter Horse breeding programme at Hagen im Bremischen in Lower Saxony, built on more than 25 years of experience. The aim is robust, versatile, healthy and level-headed horses, blending traditional foundation bloodlines with modern breeding practice. Rather than specialising for a single discipline, the programme produces durable all-rounders suited to a range of western disciplines. Horses are started and trained on the yard and offered for sale, and buyers can get advice on foundation Quarter Horse pedigrees and traits.
Hof Woldar is the show-jumping yard of Claes Lendrop in Wulsbüttel near Hagen im Bremischen. It offers training of horses from young horses to experienced sport horses, corrective riding, auction and show presentation, livery and raising of foals. Claes Lendrop gives individual show-jumping lessons up to S level and coaches riders at shows. Horses for sale: the yard always has ridden horses from youngsters to experienced show jumpers and also helps buyers find horses. Facilities include an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, a horse walker and paddocks.
AM Horse Training is Andreas Martin's western riding and horse training business at Hagen im Bremischen in Lower Saxony. The work is built on communicating with the horse through trust and positive motivation rather than pressure. Training covers basic and advanced western riding, competition preparation, loading training, and groundwork with foals and young horses. Riding lessons are given to riders at every level, and the business also takes on general horse-handling work for owners.
Palomino-Farm is a western riding centre and Quarter Horse stud between Bremen and Bremerhaven, in operation for more than forty years and one of the longest-established western yards in Germany. Owner and trainer Torsten Köhn, who trained in the United States, breeds and schools Quarter Horses and Paint Horses that have made a name for themselves in Germany and across Europe. The farm trains client horses in all western disciplines and teaches riders from beginners and leisure riders through to competitors. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a 40 x 60 m outdoor arena, a covered round pen, fifty boxes, a treatment room, large turnout areas and fifteen hectares of adjoining pasture, and full-service livery is offered.
Hof Beckerode in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald is a dressage yard run by the Koch family. Horses are schooled to order up to the advanced dressage classes and presented at competition, with additional training sessions arranged as needed. The team also advises on buying and marketing horses and coordinates vet, farrier, vaccination and worming appointments for the horses in its care. The yard works with ambitious amateurs and professionals alike from modern stabling and its own riding hall.
Hof Kasselmann is a specialist in dressage horses, providing training and management services for riders and teams. The facility offers horse sales and after-sales services, focusing on high-class dressage horses. It is recognized as a center for equestrian events and training, supporting riders from around the world.
Vechtehof-Egbers is a training and sales yard in Gölenkamp on the Dutch border, run by Wolfgang Egbers with more than forty years in the profession. Certified trainers school horses and riders from basic work through to competition level, with individually tailored sessions. The yard keeps livery horses, markets sale horses of its own and on behalf of clients, and runs dressage clinics and seminars. It also stages its own competitions during the season.
Pueblo-Lindo is a small equestrian farm run by Susanne Gläßer at Falsbult near Großenkneten, inside a protected landscape between two nature reserves. The yard boards horses and has a particular focus on retirement livery for older horses that need a quiet place to age well. Alongside boarding it offers horsemanship instruction and guided trail rides, and is registered as a Wanderreitstation for riders travelling through. Holiday programmes for foster children are also run on the farm.
Gestüt Kastanienhof is a pony stud at Sage-Haast near Großenkneten in Lower Saxony, run by Julia and Timo Coldewey and breeding ponies since 1968. The yard combines stallion keeping, an insemination station with its own modern laboratory, a training operation and a sales business. Its stated aim is performance-ready and genuinely child-friendly ponies. Training covers lungeing, backing and competition preparation for the stud's own and for clients' horses and ponies, and livery places are available. Fresh and frozen semen from the station's stallions can be ordered online.
