Mecklenburg warmblood
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| Origin: | Germany |
| Main breeding area: | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Distribution: | low, approx. 90 stallions and approx. 1,500 mares |
| Stick measure : | 150-170 cm |
| Colors : | all basic colors |
| Main application area: | Riding horse |
The Mecklenburg Warmblood is a German horse breed.
Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .
Exterior
The Mecklenburg resident is very similar to the Hanoverian , but is a bit more compact and mostly smaller.
interior
good-natured, energetic, willing to perform, courageous
Breeding history
Until 1945
The breed was founded in 1812 at the Redefin stud with stallions and mares from farmers. In breeding by the mid-19th century, the use of English thoroughbred stallions had done too much of a good thing, and the horses became too light. Cold-blooded stallions were used as a correction for decades and horses were obtained that were not usable for further breeding. It was not until the end of the century that the breeding regulations were changed to create a consolidated mare base in the country again, with the help of the Hanoverian warmblood. On this basis, with the dosed use of whole blood and Trakehnern , breeding was carried out until 1945 and beyond until today.
From 1945
After the Second World War, the Mecklenburg horse breeding suffered severe cuts. In the chaos of war, almost 70 percent of the breeding horse population was lost. 172 Redefin stallions were transported to the Soviet Union as reparations, 13 stallions remained in Redefin. The Mecklenburg breeding area expanded to include Western Pomerania with the establishment of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The Neuhaus office was also added, as a result of which a Hanoverian horse population was incorporated into the Mecklenburg breed. In addition, the horse population was expanded by the horses of the refugees from eastern former German areas. In 1948, after the regional association of Mecklenburg horse breeders had been re-established and the land reform , there were again over 160 stallions in Redefin, but only 49 of these stallions from Mecklenburg.
Problematic for the breeding of the Mecklenburg horse was the dissolution of the Redefin State Stud in 1951, which was converted into a state-owned estate . As a result, the stallion population was distributed across the country to the nationally owned estates. In 1956, this step was reversed with the creation of the Redefin Stallion Depot. At that time, breeding was aimed at raising horses for the farms that were established after the land reform. The horse breeding association was dissolved again in 1953, and its task was taken over by the associations of nationally owned animal breeding companies in the respective districts.
In the 1960s there was a radical change in horse breeding: after the creation of agricultural production cooperatives with large fields and increasing use of technology, the horse became superfluous in agriculture in the districts of Neubrandenburg, Rostock and Schwerin that had now emerged. The horse population dropped significantly. In the period that followed, the rearing of the foals was no longer supported by government feed subsidies, and concentrated feed had to be diverted from the capacities of other livestock.
However, under the sponsorship of the Society for Sport and Technology , the use of horses in sport by rural youth increased. As a result, the German Equestrian Association was founded in 1961 under the German Gymnastics and Sport Federation . In 1962, in order to promote the riding horse type, the stallion depot Redefin in Ganschow set up a rearing business for foals of the riding horse type. From the 1960s onwards, thoroughbred horses were increasingly crossed into the Mecklenburg breeders for the export of horses to acquire foreign currency.
From Mecklenburg warmblood to the noble warmblood of the GDR
As a result of these developments, the Central Office for Horse Breeding at the Ministry of Agriculture of the GDR was set up as the governing body for horse breeding. This organized the reorganization of horse breeding in the 1970s. The "Noble Warmblood of the GDR" was created as a breed and took over the horses with aptitude for riding and driving from the existing horse breeds in the GDR. Stallion keeping was finally monopolized by the state, and the first farms with the horse breeding branch of production were awarded the “State-approved horse breeding company” (BaP) award.
From the 1970s, the dominant stallion lines in warmblood breeding in Mecklenburg today were the detective line (especially dispatcher ) and the Julier line ( Jupiter I , Juon I , Juon II , Juventus ). From the King's branch line , which came to Mecklenburg through Körling after the Second World War , Kolibri was probably the most important stallion born during the GDR's existence in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
After 1990 the noble warmblood breed of the GDR was dissolved, the old warmblood breeds were revived when the horse breeding associations were re-established. In the years that followed, the Mecklenburg warmblood, as with all warmblood breeds of the German riding horse , was strongly mixed by crossing stallions from other warmblood breeds.
The Mecklenburg Warmblood today
The horses are used in sport, especially in jumping, but also in dressage, eventing and driving. In the early 2010s, the Oldenburg stallion Cellestial , who himself was active in sport with Rolf-Göran Bengtsson , and the Oldenburg stallion Lord Kemm, were formative stallions for Mecklenburg horse breeding with a focus on show jumping . Increasingly in breeding both Mecklenburg and for example in the Oldenburg breeding success was the Mecklenburg Stallion Chacco-Blue (1998-2012), who on the dam's side, among other dispatchers declined.
In the field of dressage, the Redefiner state stallion D'Olympic von Donnerhall is active in the sport under master saddle master Michael Thieme, the most important stallion in Mecklenburg breeding.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The history of horse breeding in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from 1945 to the present , diploma thesis by Brit Risch, presented at the University of Rostock in 1995
- ↑ Most successful horses in 2010
- ↑ Chacco-Blue named elite stallion