Heavy warmblood

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A group of warmblood horse breeds is called heavy warmblood . With these the use as a riding and sport horse is not in the foreground, instead the traditional, medium-weight body type is sought. It was originally intended to be equally suitable for service in front of the wagon and in the plow .

The Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food took until 2017 three horse breeds in the group Heavy Warmblood together:

Since 2017 these three breeds have been recorded individually again. The Rottaler horse was not part of this group, but also corresponds to the type of a heavy warmblood.

In 2015 the stock of these four breeds in Germany comprised 101 licensed stallions and 1150 mares. Of this, a good 55 percent of the stallions and 80 percent of the mares were from the Saxon-Thuringian heavy warmblood.

The history of the East Frisian and Old Oldenburg breeding of the heavy warmblood goes back to the Middle Ages, but essentially ceased to exist after 1960. Heavy warm-blooded animals have been specifically bred in Saxony and Thuringia since the 1870s, and until the middle of the 20th century, breeding animals were repeatedly imported from the main breeding areas of Oldenburg and East Frisia.

The breeding of the Rottal horse also has a long, independent tradition, but from the 1880s onwards, massive Oldenburg stallions were crossed. During the breeding of the Württemberg horse, it was mainly Normans that were crossbred , but Oldenburg stallions were also used here.

From the 1980s onwards there was a return to the old races in the heavy warmblood type. With the remaining mares and stallion lines preserved in the Saxon-Thuringian breeding, the breeding of the Ostfriesen / Alt-Oldenburger was resumed on a small scale. From the 1990s on, Saxon-Thuringian stallions were crossbred in the maintenance breeding of the Altwürttemberger, which is also of the medium-heavy type, and these are also permitted in the maintenance breeding of the Rottaler.

As a joint event of the three races Saxon-Thuringian Heavy Warmblood, Ostfriese / Alt-Oldenburg and Altwürttemberger annually in Moritzburg the Federal Championships conducted Heavy Warmblood.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (Ed.): Native farm animal breeds in Germany and Red List of Endangered Farm Animal Breeds 2017 (=  Red List . No. 5 ). March 1, 2018, foreword, p. 4 (213 pp., Ble.de [PDF; 3.0 MB ; accessed on April 18, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Indigenous livestock breeds in Germany and the Red List of Endangered Livestock Breeds 2017. (pdf) Federal Office for Agriculture and Food , March 1, 2018, p. 213 , accessed on April 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The Heavy Warmblood Horse in the 21st Century , Horse Breeding Association Saxony-Thuringia e. V., accessed on April 16, 2018
  4. ↑ Jasper Nissen: Large equestrian and horse dictionary . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1977, ISBN 3-570-04580-3 , p. 341, 433 .
  5. ^ Breeders fight against the extinction of East Frisians , Berit Böhme / welt.de , October 4, 2012
  6. ↑ Der Altwürttemberger - Rassenhistorie, altwuerttemberger.de, accessed on April 16, 2018
  7. ↑ Rottaler - Zuchtziel , bayerns-pferde.de, accessed on April 17, 2018
  8. ↑ Moritzburg (08.18.2017 - 08.20.2017): Eligibility Bundeschampionate Heavy Warmblood , nennung-online.de, accessed on April 16, 2018