Oldenburg State Tournament

The Oldenburg State Tournament is a horse show that is held annually in the Rastede Palace Park. It always ends on the fourth Sunday in July. The disciplines are show jumping and show jumping tests, dressage and dressage horse tests, eventing tests, driving tests and vaulting and are divided into five different levels of difficulty: entry level, beginner, easy, medium and difficult. The test is carried out according to the performance test regulations of the German Equestrian Association . With over 100 tests, the tournament is one of the most extensive equestrian events in Germany.

The organizer is the Rastede racing and riding club.

Ratings

The Oldenburg state tournament is the venue for the Oldenburg state championships of all ages in various equestrian disciplines. The state champions are in show jumping (age group rider: special tests up to class S ** with jump-off ), dressage (age group rider: special tests up to class S *), eventing (age group rider: special tests up to class A) and in team driving ( pair , up to class M) determined in Rastede.

In addition to the state championships, there are other tests. The highlight of the show jumping riders is the Grand Prix, a class S *** jumping competition that is decided either in a winning round or in a jump-off . This exam is endowed with € 20,000 in 2013. The winners in this test in recent years have been:

year	Surname	horse
2000	Uwe Volmer	Leon
2001	Markus Merschformann	Costa Calma
2002	Jörne Sprehe	Lady Weingard
2003	Franz-Josef Dahlmann	Carlo Cassini
2004	Mario Stevens	Night and Day
2005	Gerald Geessink	Diagonal
2006	Gerd Sosath	Catoki
2007	Hartwig Rohde	Caletta
2008	Manuela Schweizer	Lacorada
2009	Hilmar Meyer	Gavi
2010	Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst	Chacco blue
2011	Patrick Stühlmeyer	Chelesio
2012	Johannes Ehning	Appearance
2013	Patrick Döller	Chatinue
2014	Florian Meyer zu Hartum	Toulonia
2015	Mario Stevens	El Bandiata B

history

After negotiations with the Hereditary Grand Duke Nikolaus von Oldenburg, Friedrich von Essen began building an equestrian facility in the Rastede palace gardens in 1948. On July 24, 1949, the new "racetrack" was inaugurated. In this first year, 20,000 spectators came to Rastede for the opening tournament. In the same year, on June 28 and 29, 1949, the 1st Oldenburg State Tournament took place in Cloppenburg.

In the following year Jan Noordendorp and Friedrich von Essen organized the 2nd state tournament, which took place on July 15 and 16 in the Rastede palace gardens. Another 20,000 spectators came. From then on, the Oldenburg State Tournament took place annually in the Rastede Palace Park. In the following time, national equestrian greats came to the Oldenburg state tournament again and again, for example in 1955 Hans Günter Winkler (who also started here in 1957 with "Halla"), in 1957 Dr. Reiner Klimke and 1960 Fritz and Liselott Linsenhoff . The successful eventing rider Otto Ammermann was a regular guest at the Oldenburg state tournament. In the eighties the Grand Prix of Show Jumping took place for the first time (at that time with 10,000 DM). In the years that followed, the Oldenburg state tournament was also well-attended, with the show jumping riders including Hartwig Steenken , Alwin Schockemöhle , Paul Schockemöhle , Fritz Ligges , Herbert Meyer , Franke Sloothaak , Michael Rüping , Ludger Beerbaum and Ulrich Kirchhoff .

In 2008 the Oldenburg state tournament was held for the sixtieth time.

Web links

• Official website: www.oldenburger-landesturnier.de
• Article from the "Oldenburger Reitplatz" on the tournament history (PDF file; 219 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oldenburger Landesturnier - Festival of the Horse  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ The Rastede Racing and Riding Club was founded on June 27, 1947 by 22 active and 12 passive riders as the Hahn Riding Club and renamed the Rastede Racing and Riding Club in December 1949. The beginnings of tournament sports in Rastede go back to 1950, first with a spring race day in May 1950, then on July 15 and 16, 1950 with the 2nd Oldenburg State Tournament. Since then, the main task of the association has been to hold the Oldenburg state tournament.
3. ↑ ^{a b} List of the 2008 Oldenburg Masters on www.reitverein-rastede.de
4. ↑ Announcement of the Oldenburg State Tournament 2010 in the tournament calendar at NnungOnline of the German Equestrian Association