Saxon-Thuringian heavy warmblood
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| Important data | |
| Origin: | Saxony and Thuringia |
| Main breeding area: | Saxony |
| Distribution: | low |
| Stick measure : | 157-165 cm |
| Colors : | mostly black and brown |
| Main application area: | Driving horse |
The Saxon-Thuringian Heavy Warmblood is a horse breed from the breeding areas of Saxony and Thuringia .
This breed, which is not to be confused with the Saxon-Thuringian cold blood , which is also bred , is often referred to simply as the heavy warmblood . The Saxon-Thuringian heavy warmblood is the most common representative of the heavy warmblood type in Germany.
Background information on horse evaluation and breeding can be found under: Exterior , interior and horse breeding .
Exterior
The height of the Saxon-Thuringian heavy warmblood is 157-165 cm. Black horses, brown horses, foxes and molds are the coat colors, but statistically the most common are brown, dark brown and black horses. Excessive white markings are undesirable. They have an expressive and distinctive head on a medium-length neck. This is well muscled and put on. They have long, sloping shoulders and well-developed withers. The loin and croup are also well muscled, and the croup is slightly inclined.
interior
Saxon-Thuringian heavy warm-blooded animals are persistent, reliable and capable of learning. Thanks to their very good driving ability, they are particularly suitable as carriage horses in driving. So representatives of this horse breed won u. a. 2004 the German pair championships . The teams on the second, the fourth and two other places under the top ten consisted of heavy warmbloods.
Breeding history
Saxon-Thuringian heavy warm-blooded animals go back to Oldenburg-East Frisian foundations from breeding .
In the past, the Thuringian or heavy warmblood was mainly bred in the Thuringia breeding area as a warm-blooded workhorse. Areas of application were agriculture and the haulage industry. The army preferred to use the heavy warmblood as pack horses and for the drawn artillery .
However, this breed was almost extinct in the 1960s and 1970s, as at that time the breeding efforts with the creation of the noble warmblood went in the direction of riding and sport horses. The pure breeding of the heavy warmblood was even temporarily banned by government agencies. In 1971 the breeding of Thuringian or heavy warmbloods ended due to lack of demand. Dedicated breeders fed the old stallions until breeding was resumed in 1977 with 10 stallions remaining. Since the 1980s, however, the breeding of the horse breed was resumed and even intensified. In 1981 the first stallion licensing took place after the breeding break. In the meantime, the neighboring breeding areas of Thuringia and Saxony cooperate so closely with each other that the respective warmblood breeding lines have been merged into the aforementioned Saxon-Thuringian heavy warmblood and a joint breeding program exists. Approved stallions from both breeding areas are available for the other breeding area.
Both breeding areas are also active as a joint horse breeding association Saxony-Thuringia. In 2005 there were 1140 female animals of the Saxon-Thuringian heavy warmblood registered in the main stud book. There are about 40 stallions (private and state stallions together).
The local breeding focus is the Moritzburg state stud . In Baden-Württemberg there is a heavy warmblood interest group "Baden-Württemberg", whose activities are supported by the main and state stud Marbach .
In Lower Saxony there is also a relatively small association that keeps the stud book for the East Frisian-Old Oldenburg heavy warm-blooded animals. Otherwise, the breeding of heavy warm-blooded animals outside Saxony and Thuringia only plays a role in Denmark, the Netherlands ( Groninger ) and Poland (Schlesier or Slaski). Saxony-Thuringia can meanwhile be considered the main breeding area of the heavy warmblood, both because of the number of breeding animals and because of the high breeding level of the population.
Endangerment of the breed
At the Central Documentation Center for Animal Genetic Resources in Germany (TGRDEU), the breed is considered endangered (effective population size Ne at 231.6) and falls under the category of “conservation population”. According to the FAO's “Risk Status” classification, the breed is considered endangered. The federal states of Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia receive their own funds to maintain the horse breed. The Moritzburg State Stud provides stallions to breeders and thus contributes to the preservation of the Saxon-Thuringian Heavy Warmblood breed.
See also
literature
- Horses in Saxony and Thuringia - specialist magazine for breeding and sport . Verlag Sachsens Pferde GmbH, Moritzburg