Stud Farm Graditz

Hauptgestüt Graditz is part of the Sächsische Gestütsverwaltung. Within this administration it is responsible for keeping the mare herd and rearing young stallions to replenish the stallion stock. Its tasks also include keeping pension horses and operating an EU-recognised insemination station, and a key focus is training apprentices in the profession of Pferdewirt with a specialisation in horse husbandry and service. The stud traces its origins to the first documented mention of horse breeding in Graditz in 1630, when the stud was called a Stutery, and the founding of the Kurfürstlich-Sächsisches Hofgestüt Graditz in 1686 by Elector Johann Georg III.

The first documented mention of horse breeding in Graditz dates to 1630, when the stud was called a Stutery. The Kurfürstlich-Sächsisches Hofgestüt Graditz was founded in 1686 by Elector Johann Georg III, who established the Torgau studs with the breeding sites Repitz, Graditz, Döhlen, Kreyschau and Neu Bläsern. In 1694 Friedrich August I (August the Strong) took over the stud and expanded it in 1721; this period saw the construction of the castle building and the layout of the stud park with its three avenues, designed and supervised by M. Daniel Pöppelmann, then Saxon court master builder. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1813 and the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the region around Torgau was declared a province of Prussia and the Torgau studs passed to the Prussian stud administration; Graditz thereafter bore the name Königlich Preußisches Hauptgestüt Graditz. Its importance at that time lay above all in breeding half-bred horses, which served the stallion replenishment of Prussia's state studs. From 1866 the Prussian stud administration concentrated the English Thoroughbred breeding scattered among its main studs at Graditz, creating an exemplary breeding herd of this breed for producing racehorses and refining stallions for warmblood breeding. This development was shaped significantly by Oberlandstallmeister Count Georg von Lehndorff, head of the Prussian stud administration and director of Graditz from 1866 to 1906. The end of the Second World War brought considerable cuts to the development of the Graditz studs; until 1945 the Hauptgestüt Graditz had three Vorwerke. Today Hauptgestüt Graditz operates within the Sächsische Gestütsverwaltung, where it is responsible for keeping the mare herd and rearing young stallions to replenish the stallion stock, as well as keeping pension horses and running an EU-recognised insemination station, with a key focus on training apprentices in the profession of Pferdewirt specialising in horse husbandry and service.

A state stud farm within the Sächsische Gestütsverwaltung, focused on mare herd management, young stallion rearing and vocational training in horse husbandry.

Product categories. Mare herd husbandry · Rearing of young stallions · Pension horse keeping · EU-recognised insemination station · Apprentice training (Pferdewirt)

1. 1Startseite: SGV - Sächsische Gestütsverwaltungsaechsische-gestuetsverwaltung.de
2. 2Geschichte Hauptgestüt: SGV - Sächsische Gestütsverwaltungsaechsische-gestuetsverwaltung.de