Redefin State Stud

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Riding arena of the state stud
Stall III of the state stud

The State Stud Redefin is the state stud of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is located in the southwest of the country in the municipality of Redefin in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district .

Among other things, the stud breeds stallions and conducts stallion and mare tests. In addition, the state riding and driving school for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is based here, annual stallion parades are held, which also makes the facility a tourist attraction. The historic stud farm, horses and staff are sometimes used to represent the country.

In 1812, the Mecklenburg warmblood was bred in the Redefin State Stud .

history

A sovereign mare already existed in 1710. It supplied the ducal Schwerin stables with noble horses. The facility was leased from 1795 to 1810 and subsequently operated as the main stud.

100th anniversary in 1912, group photo in front of the stud management
Stud management in 2008

In order to improve horse breeding, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz I founded the state stud in 1812 . In 1817, 20 stallions were kept in six Mecklenburg towns for cover . The buildings of the stud were built between 1820 and 1824 under the head stable master Vollrath Joachim Helmuth von Bülow based on plans by Carl Heinrich Wünsch . In 1840 there were already 26 stud stations with 134 stallions. The use of English thoroughbred stallions, combined with down-to-earth mare lines, resulted in horses that led to Europe-wide demand. As a result, cold-blooded stallions were increasingly used for slaughtering in the countryside , which, due to a lack of breeding work, dealt the breeding a heavy blow in 1867. From 1873 on, Hanoverian stallions were bought and their breeding goals changed. On April 1, 1892, the previous director of the Hanover State Stud Celle , Major a. D. Christian Freiherr von Stenglin , appointed Oberlandstallmeister. The state stud and the Mecklenburg horse breeding enjoyed the greatest boom to date under his leadership. From October 1, 1921, the long-standing chairman of the Oldenburg licensing commission, Major a. D. Werner Freiherr von Wenckstern appointed chief stableman and director of the state stud in Redefin.

In 1928 the old mare stable burned down. With shortened axes, but with the classicist facade, it was rebuilt in 1931 as a construction horse stable.

The First World War led to an increased demand for horses. In 1915 there were only 142 breeding stallions at 39 breeding stations, in 1920 there were already 10,084 breeding stallions with 175 stallions. In the course of the global economic crisis, the number fell to 2196 by 1929, also due to the increasing motorization in agriculture. In 1934, the stud in Redefin, with the union of the duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, took over staff, stallions and inventory from the disbanded state stud Neustrelitz .

A stallion parade was held for the first time in 1935, at that time as a pure breeding show. The Second World War again led to an increased need for horses for military service. After the war, work horses were mainly needed, so that as early as 1949 221 stallions were used. Since 1951, Western Pomerania, which was previously supplied by the Labes stud, which belonged to Poland after the end of the war , has also belonged to the area of ​​responsibility of the state site in Redefin. In 1946 a horse statue that had previously adorned a horse stable in Ticino came to Redefin. It was erected in front of the Schwemme in the early 1960s .

The further motorization and the amalgamation of individual farmers to form cooperatives led to a decline in horse keeping and breeding in the early 1960s. In 1970 the breeding lines in Rostock and Schwerin were incorporated and a tourist department was set up. The stallion population had dropped to 86 and rose again to 100 by 1987.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1993, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania took over the stud and began to renovate the structure of the historic stud complex. A new riding arena was built behind the old riding arena portal by 1998. In 2007 there were 70 stallions in the stud's portfolio. The annual stallion parades are still one of the most important major events in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and helped expand the facility into a cultural location and tourist attraction. At the federal highway 24 is to lower signposts pointed to the State Stud.

Oberlandstallmeister and stud manager

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Redefin , in: Alois Koch: Encyclopedia of the Entire Animal Medicine and Animal Breeding ... Volume 8: Horse scissors - Rzys , Vienna and Leipzig: Perles 1891, pp. 630–633.
  • Hans Georg Nahr: Historical data about the Redefin State Stud. Hanover 1941.
  • Hans Henschler, Jürgen Hellerung: State stallion depot Redefin and the Mecklenburg horse breeding. Redefin 1962.
  • Christian Freiherr von Stenglin: German horse breeding. History, breeding goals. Warendorf 1983.
  • Iris Kroehnert: Redefin State Stud. History, development, stallions. Lueneburg 2001.
  • Wolf Karge: Achievement based on tradition - 200 years of the Redefin State Stud. Redefin 2012 ISBN 978-3-00-037920-8 .

Unprinted sources

  • Archive State Stud Redefin
  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 2.12-1 / 26 Court matters.
    • LHAS 2.26-1 Cabinet I.
    • LHAS 2.26-2 Court Marshal's Office.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 1 Ministry of Finance, Dept. Domains and Forests.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Department of Agriculture, Domains and Forests.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 7 State Stud Redefin.
    • LHAS 5.12-5 / 10 Administration of State Buildings .
    • LHAS 5.12-9 / 2 District Office Hagenow.
    • LHAS 6.12-1 / 6 Council of the Hagenow district.

Web links

Commons : Landgestüt Redefin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Ende : Despite multiple traces, almost unknown. The Schweriner Oberhofbaurat Carl Heinrich Wünsch (1779–1855) , Mecklenburg-Magazin of the Schweriner Volkszeitung, No. 2/2005, p. 9
  2. ^ Hugo von Pentz: Redefin . In: Album of Mecklenburg goods in the former knighthood office in Wittenburg. 2005 p. 102.
  3. ↑ The new managing director at the Redefin State Stud started her work on February 2, 2009; accessed on September 16, 2017. Here with the designations of managing director and country stable master


Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 31.6 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 33.4"  E