Leutstettener

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Leutstettener
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Important data
Origin: Sárvár
Main breeding area: Bavaria and Hungary
Distribution: Rare
Stick measure : 155-165 cm
Colors : Brown, little white markings
Main application area: Riding and driving horse

The Leutstetten horse (also known as the Sárvár horse ) is a rare horse breed today (approx. 25 specimens) that was bred in the Leutstetten stud farm in Bavaria until 2006 . Breeding is now in the hands of a few private breeders. In terms of type, the Leutstetten horse is a noble half-breed .

Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .

Exterior

There are browns of all shades, white markings are rare. The height is approx. 155–165 cm.

interior

Leutstetteners are suitable for all branches of riding and driving and are considered to be very robust, tough and enduring.

Breeding history

The horses originally come from the Sárvár stud in western Hungary. Once upon a time, Nóniusz , Arabs and English thoroughbreds formed the breeding basis for Sárvár horses. The stud in Sárvár came into possession of the Wittelsbach family in 1875 through the Archduchess of Modena-Este. The change of ownership also brought changes to the breeding business. From now on there are only English thoroughbreds and Hungarian half-bloods of the Furioso-North Star breed among the stallions in the Sárvár mares herd; From 1900 the three Furioso-North Star stallions North Star VIII , Furioso XXIII and Gyöngy had a decisive influence on the breeding of the later years. Since then, Sárvár horses have been listed in Hungary as a line within the Furioso-North Star breed.

The Sárvár stud went into the possession of HRH Marie Therese, born in 1875. Archduchess of Austria-Este about and after her marriage to the Bavarian Prince Ludwig , the Sárvár horses are in Bavarian possession.

In the spring of 1945 - shortly before the end of the war - HRH Ludwig Prince of Bavaria evacuated a herd of mother mares to Bavaria, which found a new home on his property in Leutstetten. In 1980, fifty horses (mares and two stallions) were returned to the Pusztaberény Stud near Balatonfenyves in Hungary. These descendants of the Sárvár horses - who embodied the original Furioso type - were supposed to support the Furioso breeding, which was in crisis. The Furioso-North Star breed appears to be recovering from its low point in the 1980s.

The Leutstetten horse is now threatened with extinction and is on the red list of endangered domestic livestock breeds in Germany .

Individual evidence

  1. Hans-Joachim Irmler: Royal horses p. 18ff.
  2. | Breeding history on www.pferderassen.net , accessed on April 15, 2020
  3. [1] . The history of the Furioso North-Star breed; Homepage of the Hungarian Breeding Association.

literature

  • Irmler, Hans-Joachim: Royal Horses , Munich 1966.

See also

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