Wolthausen - Hitzacker

We drive the car and trailer in advance to our destination, including luggage for a one-week holiday in the holiday apartment. There is a regional train station 2 km from the hotel, from where you can travel home via Lüneburg.

Day 0: 7 km

First overnight stay in Feuerschützenbostel with friends

- usually no accommodation available.

The daily tours

Day 1: 25 km (For riding after +7 km)

Midday: Fuhrmann Schänke - Dehningshof (paddocks and tie rings available)

Accommodation: Dalle - Traumzeithof

Warm welcome, delicious dinner together with other guests and hosts, very abundant breakfast

Day 2: 32 km

Midday: Cafe in Borstel

Let horses graze by hand from 2 chairs

The food was brought to us across the street

After the lunch break, Carlos is lame at the trot; my husband leads him to the accommodation (13 km)

Accommodation: Lüder - Mielmann

Tuesday is a rest day here, so we had to go to the local inn for dinner (4 min)

Breakfast rustic, ample and family-like, foil was available for packing lunch

Day 3: 21 km

Unfortunately, my husband has to walk the whole way again with Carlos, the irritated tendon must be spared

Lunch from the pack bag

Accommodation: Dahrendorf - Anja Rademacher

Warm welcome with coffee and cake, and delicious dinner

Breakfast again good and ample, we could have packed a lunch, but there is a recommendation to rest and eat in the log cabin

Day 4: 26 km

Today too, my husband and Carlos go on foot

Lunch: log cabin (call ahead just in case 0162 - 9 79 28 12, open from 14:00

Closed on Monday and Tuesday)

Accommodation: Beseland - Sonnenhof

Warm welcome again with coffee and cake or a beer for my husband,

Dinner sociable and good.

Breakfast also good and

The first day with us is for getting used to and checking the

location of the luggage and meeting friends.

For riding after, the starting point must be moved or the 1st stage is 7 km longer.

Start in Wolthausen at the parking lot for the canoe landing at the Örtzebrücke. Friends bring us to the starting point.

Ample, foil is available for the lunch pack and there is also a sweet treat

Day 5: 34 km

I join forces with 2 other trail riders who have the same destination.

The first and only riders we met on the way.

My husband fetches the car and drives the remaining stations with Carlos in the trailer

Lunch: from the pack bag at a location with grass for the horses

You should ride over the high Mechtin.

If you want, you can tie up the horses there and take a break in a shelter with tables and benches. For the indestructible, there is also quite a high observation tower that you can climb for the view.

Warm welcome with apple cake from the own garden, the horses are on a pasture that is actually still green and juicy

Dinner is sociable and very delicious.

Breakfast is again very good. We could pack a lunch, but our next tour is so short that we forego it.

Accommodation: Lüben - Lüben 1

Day 6: 9 km

Carlos is driven again, I ride part of the route with the comrades from the day before, then the last 2 km alone

Lunch and accommodation: Hitzacker - Wietzeze - Pferde Schulze

Here our car and trailer should be ready, but due to Carlos's lameness my husband already picked up the team 2 days ago.

From now on it is holiday and riding from one accommodation:

We have a holiday cottage in the country hotel Hitzacker at "Pferdeschulze", the horses are on the pasture

Conclusion: The ride is worth it, the detour to Saxony-Anhalt provides a varied landscape

Our horses are only shod in front and tolerated the ride well, however it is borderline; complete hoof protection is therefore recommended.

The route represents only a variant that we rode; at some points there are certainly alternative paths in the forest that are even more beautiful.

The route often runs along the long-distance footpath E6 from Dahrendorf; it is partly gravelled, but you can usually ride forward on the side or middle strips.

Once you get into the Göhrde there are plenty of paths and clearings, which are mostly not marked on maps. Other paths are missing even though they are marked. You have to improvise a bit to catch the wonderful grass and forest paths and not end up on the gravel paths for forest management.