intangible cultural heritage

Grassland breeding and breeding young herd of horses at the stud Graditz

area : Ostelbien
category : practices concerning nature
A very old tradition in the east of the Elbe is grassland and young breeding herd of horses in Graditz, a locality in the nearby district town of Torgau. The breeding goes back to the year 1630 (first mention) back. Today are bred as Saxon Main Stud (owned by the Free State of Saxony) Warmblood horses. The specific rearing is Graditz in ensuring a natural and welfare of growing up young horses - called Grassland breeding.

In the north-Saxon village Graditz - located east of the Elbe, but since 1999 the city of Torgau belonging - the Saxon state stud in the center of the village. Focus on the stud farm system is the stud farm courtyard on three sides with the surrounding stables and the dominating castle. The entire stud system with the castle building is a listed building.

Founded in 1686 as a Saxon Court Stud Graditz out many years as a Royal Prussian state stud, the stud had to cover primarily the task of the enormous needs of the horse of the marstalls with a prestigious thoroughbred and crossbreed. Today it is a Saxon state stud, the stud farm beside Moritzburg the property of the Free State of Saxony and operates in the interests of the country\'s horse breeding warmblood breeding of horses. This ensured that the operation with his breeding stocks continue to serve the horse breeder is. The main stud is in cooperation with the National Stud Moritzburg since the year 2004 as \"Saxon stud management\" is a company of the Free State of Saxony.

Since taking over the main stud Graditz in the Prussian Stud Administration in 1813, is out for the Half-Blood breeding Graditz its own stud book and a separate fire. The brandmark expresses that the horses should be swift as an arrow and snake robe. It is located on the right hind leg of warmblood horses and is still used today.

After the Second World War, the Graditz horse breeding came almost to a standstill, as most of the herd was transported as war booty to the Soviet Union. Graditz horses that were sold to Western Germany, have been used since 1948 to rebuild the local populations. An economic challenge was in the past 20 years, the conversion of the entire population in a modern riding horse stallion performance tested sires, which are due to their genealogy on blood lines of the successful German riding horse breeding areas.

The complete renovation of the entire area 2006/2007 allowed the grounds have been restored to its former glory, while increasing the capacity to accommodate visiting horses for training and insemination for private horse lovers and breeders.

The stud is concerned with the breeding of thoroughbred horses, the riding horse breeding and the stallions and breeding stallion. In the main stud mares of the breed are Graditz German sport horse mares and Trakehner descent held.

In particular, the type of rearing horses in Graditz. Since 1866, the young racing horses receive during rearing a \"youth training\" at the site Graditz. During this time the young racehorses are prepared in a special training on their own track in Graditz to succeed later on national and international racetracks can.

Great emphasis is placed on the Graditz in grassland breeding of horses. Foundation for a healthy upbringing of young horses is to ensure a natural and welfare of growing up young horses. The grassland farming is the archetype of the horse breeding. It is practiced internationally but less and less.

This traditional form of farming is carried on in the Graditz not for 300 years under permanent pasture grassland. To approximately 250 hectares of pasture land on the floodplains and in foreshore of the river Elbe be held on average up to 250 animals. Each horse is thus an average of one hectare of pasture available. The long summer and winter paddocks the horses are available throughout the year. Exception of a few days a year, which would cause harm to the horses because of the weather, the coupling of strong and durable. On such days the horses are large and fortified, but outlets are available.

On the horse pastures are the best horses forage sources. But not horses eat the pasture gradually. Thus, the optimal and near-natural grazing areas also can be maintained, it makes full use of managed grazing suckler cows. Graditz has its own herd of cattle.

On the coupling of the pasture land in the floodplain Graditz landscape in addition to the stud farm\'s foals and foals reared host. In great running boxes and kept at optimum supply with roughage Graditz offers ideal possibilities. In addition, young horses are depending on the option taken by the stud riding and ridden and trained staff. Graditz with his English Baroque architecture and landscape design not only for horse lovers, nature lovers and architecture enthusiasts a gem. A real magnet for visitors to have held the annual Stud and Foal Show and the event \"Horses and Music\" was developed. These events act as a link between the breeding of horses, the cavalry and the increasing popularity of horses in the population.

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