The district of Ebersberg is a horse district - hardly a place in which there is no riding stable.
Horse boarding houses in particular are booming - and it's not just the rich townspeople who have come on horseback.
In the district of Ebersberg there are 60 pension stables and a lot more about riding.
The industry is booming, riding is a popular sport.
The Barrens Scheiderhof between Ebersberg and Steinhöring is one of the pioneers in the open stable keeping.
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- "All happiness on earth lies on the back of a horse", rhymes the vernacular, and if you believe him, happiness is at home in the Ebersberg district.
Because there is enough horse back here.
If you drive through the villages with open eyes, you hardly pass a hamlet without neighing from a paddock or a stable or horse hooves clattering along the adjacent dirt roads.
The Ebersberger Land is horse country - this impression is not misleading.
The
district office in the district has
60 pension
stables
alone
, as well as countless private horse owners who only have a few horses of their own in the stables.
The largest horse boarding houses, stables where horse owners without their own buildings can accommodate their horses for a fee, accommodate 60 to 80 horses.
The trend is towards the open stable
The barrier tailor's yard is scratching at this mark.
Andrea and Toni Zeller's business is located in the green hills between Ebersberg and Steinhöring.
Exactly 20 years ago, the Zellers switched from dairy farming to horse farms.
The couple stands on the ocher-colored, sandy paddock, a kind of playground for the horses, where they can move around freely all day.
“It wasn't planned that it would be that big,” says Andrea Zeller.
She strokes her Icelandic horse Rasmus on the nostrils, which has pushed itself confidently up to her.
From the beginning, the operation was designed as an open stable - so the horses are not housed in individual boxes like cars in the garage, but are allowed to move freely on the paddock day and night.
They actually only hide under the roof in bad weather or in great heat, says the head of the farm.
“A horse is an animal in motion,” adds her husband.
The computer controls the feeding
20 years ago the Zellers were still exotic in the area with their concept.
"Today this form of keeping is booming," says Andrea Zeller.
Beside her, the brown mongrel gelding Flynn scratches visibly impatiently in front of a horse-high gate with his hoof.
Computer-controlled, the door swings open, Flynn trudges in and to a feeding trough.
A sensor recognizes its chip and the system lets a set amount of feed trickle into the trough.
So the horses always get something to eat when they have an appetite, without getting too fat.
That corresponds more to their nature than two or three feedings a day.
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Trendsetters: Andrea and Toni Zeller - with the Icelandic horse Rasmus - have been keeping their stables open for 20 years.
© Stefan Rossmann
At the same time as the Zeller farm, the whole industry in the Ebersberg district has grown.
For an equine physiotherapist, an equine alternative practitioner or an equine orthopedic surgeon, the rider no longer has to leave the region - the infrastructure is there.
"There are more professions in the industry today, people who specialize," says Andrea Zeller.
There is even a working group for boarding horse owners for the Munich area;
in winter he met for the first time in the district of Ebersberg.
Toni Zeller observes that the riders are now more demanding when it comes to feed and husbandry - a shed with a meadow in front of it, like the one available as a boarding house from 150 euros, is not enough.
Up to 900 euros per month for a place in the horse pension
A place in a fully equipped horse boarding house costs up to 900 euros per month: with riding arenas, horse walker, treadmill, jumping arena and all sorts of other harassment.
"In the upper price range, people are looking for luxury," says Andrea Zeller and teases: "Not always necessarily for the horses."
At the Zellers on the barrier cutter yard, the parking space costs 340 euros.
“We're not the cheapest,” the farmer confesses.
Nevertheless, the demand is high - and the number of SUVs arriving from Munich is manageable.
Most of the customers come from the region.
Andrea Zeller points to a huge white horse trotting towards the dugout.
“It belongs to a hairdresser,” she says.
Say: It is not only the rich who ride.
Incidentally, the horse pensions are not the end of the story.
The district office still has a number of tournament stables in the Ebersberg horse district, especially around Vaterstetten.
There is also a training stable, the Ingelsberger Vaulting Club, several western stables, Icelandic horse farms, a trotting stud, a riding and driving stable.
On the other hand, there are no large horse breeding sites in the district, but there are some that specialize in special breeds such as Apaloosa or Arabs - including, by the way, the Hohlenschneiderhof with its Irish Tinkers.
