Gut Waitzrodt from above

Experienced on site · Gut Waitzrodt

The estate — Gut Waitzrodt

Your holiday flat sits in the middle of a whole living world: a family estate at the edge of the Reinhardswald, grown over generations into far more than a riding farm.

Since 1978 the Sommer family has lived and worked here — together with a few other families on the yard. The whole estate spans around 14.6 hectares including its two little woods: courtyard buildings in the classic four-sided style, riding arenas, two indoor schools, meadows and old trees.

Around your holiday flat, a surprising number of things live and work side by side — from a real sport-riding estate to therapeutic riding, a school project, an event barn and the farm shop. You don’t have to take part in any of it; but it is all there, right outside your door.

A grown estate

Carré farmstead at the forest’s edge

A classicist manor with a mansard roof, a pond with a fountain, a round courtyard garden — and stables and riding grounds all around. None of it is a stage set: it is a working farm that a family carries, day in, day out.

The manor house of Gut Waitzrodt

One yard, many worlds

What all lives and works here

The holiday flats

Ostwind & Melkerstübchen — your home on the estate. (That’s us.)

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Garden & park

The shared flat garden and the estate park with the rabbit enclosure.

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Pony riding & riding school

A lively riding school for young and old, right on the yard.

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Ostwind film location

“Gut Kaltenbach” from all five Ostwind films — you sleep at the real place.

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The Lädchen

The regional farm shop for your stay.

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Horse boarding

Stabling for ponies and big horses; a real sport-riding estate.

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Therapeutic riding

Ponydrome Kassel e.V. (since 1992): riding therapy, hippotherapy and inclusion.

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Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Schule

A “riding farm” project of the special-needs school, here on the estate.

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Riding club Gut Waitzrodt e.V.

Tournaments and eventing with a strong track record.

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Haferboden event barn

A historic granary with oak beams — for celebrations and gatherings.

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Equine physiotherapy

Holistic treatment for horses, run under the family name.

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Experienced on site – part of Gut Waitzrodt, not the holiday flat.