Scientific name:
Equus

Natural spread:
Germany

the Belgian (Brabanter and Ardenner) s.d.) ahnliches, practical cold-blood. With well middle size very powerfully and zugstark. Big, straight head, long ears and good eyes. Snifter with it shapely and very strong neck. Long, slanted shoulder, little instep, enormously wide and deep breast. Sound-Niger torso, backs often somewhat weak. Compact hindquarters with strong Bemuskelung, falling split-croup, good Winkelung. Correct and extremely strong foundation, strong joints, powerful sinews, clear Behang; hard, moderate-sized hooves. Court, hard-working movements; leichtfuttrig and good-natured. Exclusively foxes, brown and red-mold on a size of 160 to 170 cm of stick-measurement.

Two old cold-blooded country-hits were in the Rhineland at home, the Gelderländer and the Eifeler. After the in-crossing of miscellaneous heavy Warmblütern, later also English Kaltblütern, that had not brought any improvement to breeding, put the country-stud farm Wickratz (gegr). 1839, Belgian Beschäler on, and also the breeders imported Belgian mares in large number. 1892 if the Rhineland horse-family history book was justified on the basis of this Belgian line, and still between the world wars the Rhineland was one of the most important suppliers of first-class draught horses. in 1949, one still counted 26000 broodmares, today, some still are dozen in the breeding-use. Bedeutenster Vererber of the Geganwart is Nippes the red-mold in the country-stud farm merchandise-village.