Skip to content Indoor arena with panoramic windows, 32 horse boxes by Röwer & Rüb, outdoor arena with ebb-and-flow system, horse walker, restaurant and residence.
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Much of what follows is unusual enough that it deserves to be stated plainly, with the numbers behind it. All figures are taken from the technical schedules prepared for the estate.
Top-level equestrian events have been held here since 2014. In 2018 the estate staged a round of the Grand National de CSO. Hosting a fixture of that standing is not a matter of having a good arena; it is a matter of everything around the arena working on the day.
The competition arena measures 50 × 100 metres on an ebb-and-flow surface by Otto of Stuttgart, computer-controlled, with rubber matting worked into the upper layer. Five lighting masts give it daylight-equivalent illumination; a second arena of 20 × 30 metres has four. Both are wired for sound, and an air-conditioned judges' box of 25 square metres overlooks the main arena.
The part rarely found on a private estate is the ground around it. Hard standing and serviced parking take articulated horse transporters, with eleven supply points offering 240 V and 400 V power, water and — at several — drainage, so lorries with living accommodation can be plugged in rather than left running. Beyond the surfaced areas, pasture accessible by made-up track will hold a further 600 vehicles.
The estate draws on a borehole of its own, 140 metres deep and delivering 20 cubic metres an hour — this is what irrigates the arenas. A 345 kVA generator is installed in an outbuilding of the restaurant and is designed to carry the entire site through a power failure. Heating for everything, restaurant and equestrian buildings alike, comes from one plant room beneath the club house: a 300 kW Viessmann oil boiler alongside a 45–150 kW wood pellet boiler, with 62 cubic metres of bulk pellet storage and two 4,000-litre oil tanks. Underfloor heating serves the restaurant and the heated equestrian rooms.
The log-built restaurant opened in 2013 and seats 255: a main room for 120 with its own bar, a light-filled veranda for 60, a smaller room for 30 that can be taken privately for a seminar or a family occasion, and a covered terrace for 45 looking out over the forest. Its kitchen was in the hands of Matthieu Otto, a Bocuse d'Or laureate of 2017.
Behind the service areas the building is equipped for that standard of work: seven cold rooms, three of them freezers, a double pizza oven, a wine cellar, a room fitted out for handling game, a loading dock with goods lift and separate staff changing facilities. Two apartments sit above, one of them with four bedrooms and a large living and dining room.
Thirty-two boxes of 3.5 × 4 metres, lined in solid oak, with fronts by Röwer & Rüb and an adjoining outdoor paddock to each. Every box has a hatch in the floor opening into an underground vacuum system, so muck and shavings are drawn away rather than barrowed down the aisle — one groom can work all thirty-two. Drinkers regulate between summer and winter settings, and each box can be placed under camera with monitoring from a phone.
Two secure tack rooms, entered by personal badge and under camera, hold sixteen individual lockers each. Two grooming bays are fitted with equine solariums for ultraviolet, infrared and light therapy, with hot and cold water. A covered lunging ring of 20 metres diameter is irrigated from above, with a six-horse walker running around it. Ten fenced and electrified paddocks each have their own drinker, and sand and all-weather tracks of varying gradient run out into the forest. Twelve cameras cover the site, with intruder and fire alarms monitored by Securitas.
The estate is also capable of being enlarged from the owner's adjoining land. Details on request.
The second study
The estate stands ready. At present only the restaurant is trading — the equestrian facilities are not in operation. For a buyer intending to build an operation of their own, that is an advantage: no inherited business, no staff to take over, no contracts to unwind. And the owner commissioned a full architectural study of what the same land can become — drawn, sectioned, in part already submitted for consent.
This is the fact that carries the whole scheme. Luxembourg is one of only four European hubs for equine air freight, alongside Frankfurt, Liège and Amsterdam. Frankfurt operates an animal lounge with 42 horse stalls and full veterinary facilities. A horse flown in from the Gulf lands in Luxembourg and is in its box the same morning — which is what allows a clinic, a sales arena and a hotel to work together at this address rather than merely stand side by side.
Planned behind the existing stables in the same architectural language, with its own outdoor arena: veterinary clinic, swimming pool for horses, water treadmill for rehabilitation and conditioning, four convalescence boxes, treatment rooms, solariums, washing bays, pharmacy and feed store.
The stable extension is drawn with a 30 × 60 metre arena, interior grandstands seating up to a thousand, an elevated VIP box and a further outdoor arena — plus 32 additional boxes, bringing the estate to 64. This is the piece that turns an estate into a venue: shows, sales and auctions staged on site, with guests housed a few hundred metres away.
From a single room to the largest suite, 56 rooms set among the estate's lakes. Two dining rooms, saunas and steam rooms, a fitness suite, and space that can be extended with boutiques, a cigar lounge or further seminar rooms. The architects prepared two versions — a traditional treatment and a modern one whose mirrored glazing reflects the forest, so the building largely disappears into the landscape.
Individual cottages with mirrored facades, placed on from the hotel with an uninterrupted view over the lakes. Guests are surrounded by the forest without disturbing it, with the comforts of a suite: sauna, bathroom, bedroom, living space.
A few hundred metres from the restaurant, in three sizes. Short-term accommodation is scarce in this region, and these are drawn to sit within the estate's existing aesthetic rather than against it.
The practice did not present one idea. It presented two, each fully drawn: a traditional building in timber and stone with balconies stepping down to the water, and a modern one whose mirrored glazing reflects the forest until the building nearly disappears. A buyer chooses; both sets of plans exist.
Beyond the two cottage schemes, the studies include hand-drawn proposals for cabins raised on stilts along the water — a third accommodation type, sketched with its own siting plan.
Beyond the 32 hectares of the estate itself: hunting and fishing rights over 1,200 hectares of the Northern Vosges, with ten lakes and bodies of water totalling some ten hectares.
Stated plainly rather than glossed over: the studies date from 2022, and French building consents lapse if construction has not begun. Any permission referred to here is therefore to be treated as requiring verification or renewal. What a buyer acquires is the completed design work — drawings, sections, elevations and site studies — not a shovel-ready permit.
Both original studies — what stands today and what is planned — are provided after a preliminary conversation.
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