The Rottaler or Rottal is a native breed of lower Bavaria in southeast Germany & is the only indigenous breed of Bavaria. Their name comes from the Rott River which runs through the area.
Origins ...
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The Rottal is the international name of this breed, but its local name is the Rottaler. It originated in Germany country-wide and has an established herd book.
The old Rottaler was a calm horse suitable for plowing, carriage driving and non-competitive riding. In 1994 was formed a preservation society in order to save the old type from extinction.
*Rottal - all colors except pinto and appaloosa
Russian Heavy Draft - chestnut, rare brown or bay
Russian Saddle Horse - black or seal brown only, with no markings
Russian Trotter - bay, black, chestnut, gray uncommon ...
The old Bavarian "Rottaler" breed was used to form the Bavarian warmblood, modelled to the modern sporthorse type. The breed is based on the lighter type of the Hanoverian. Also English Thoroughbred and Trakehner stallions were used.
The Bavarian Warmblood is a horse breed of southern Germany that was bred using the old Bavarian Rottaler breed, English Thoroughbreds, and Trakehner stallions. ...
Today there are only a few Rottalers left, but about 20 breeders in Bavaria are actively preserving the breed and the breed receives federal support.
By the 18th century, the Rottalers were crossbred with imported half breed English stallions, Cleveland Bay Horses and some Norman Cobs.
The Bavarian Warmblood has its home in Bavaria, one of the oldest horse breeding regions in Germany and was known in the past for the local Rottal horse.
With the introduction of Thoroughbred blood later on, the heavily built Rottaler gave way to a lighter, though still strongly built, horse averaging about 1.63 m (16 hh).
This horse breed has recently given rise to the new Bavarian Warm Blood Modification of the Rottaler. This has been going on for a couple of centuries, using Thoroughbred, Cleveland Bay and Norman bloodlines and more recently those of the Oldenburg.
Bavarian Warmblood
The Bavarian Warmblood is a horse of southern Germany that was bred using the old Bavarian "Rottaler" breed, and English Thoroughbred and Trakehner stallions. The Bavarian Warmblood was registered as a separate breed since 1963.
 See also: Warmblood, Oldenburg, Bavarian Warmblood, Thoroughbred, Warmbloods
  
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