!!!Spanische Reitschule

Spanish Riding School (Spanish Court Riding School) in Vienna, the 
oldest riding school in the world, cultivates the classic art of haute 
ecole riding. The Spanish Riding Stable already existed in 1572, and 
only horses bred from Spanish stock were admitted. Today's  Lipizzaner 
Horses are descendants of the cross-breeding between horses from the 
karst region and a traditional Spanish breed of horses (Andalusians). 
The building of the Spanish Riding School is part of the Hofburg, it 
was commissioned by Emperor Karl VI and built by J. E. 
Fischer von Erlach in 1735. Currently the Spanish Riding School 
comprises 70 Lipizzaner stallions of the strains Conversano, Favory, 
Maestoso, Neapolitano, Pluto and Siglavy. During World War II the 
Spanish Riding School was moved to a site away from Vienna and 
remained there for over a decade, it was re-opened in 1955. Up to 1918 
the horses were bred in Lipica (then Lipizza, in Slovenia) near 
Trieste, now they are bred at the Federal Stud at Piber (near 
Koeflach, Styria). There is a Lipizzaner museum at the stables in the 
Hofburg Palace in Vienna.

!Literature
A. T. Leitich and A. Podhajsky, Die Spanische 
Reitschule in Wien, 1956.



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