The Dulmen is the only native pony breed in Germany, now that the Senner pony of the Teutoburg Forest is extinct. The term native as an adjective or noun has the following meanings. ... A pony is a small horse, as determined by the animals height in hands. ... View over the Teutoburg Forest The Teutoburg Forest (German: Teutoburger Wald) is a range of low, forested mountains in the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia, which is believed to be the environ of a decisive battle in AD 9. ...

Wild Dulmen ponies in the Merfelder Bruch

Breed characteristics

The ponies look quite primitive and coarse. Some have the usual dun coloring, while others are brown, black, or chestnut, indicating infusion of outside blood. The ponies have poor hindquarters and a short neck. Dun comes from the Brythonic Din and Gaelic Dun, meaning fort, and is now used as a general term for small stone built strongholds, enclosures or roundhouses in Scotland, as a sub-group of hill forts. ... Horse gaits are the different methods by which a horse, either naturally or through human training, moves itself. ...

The horses usually stand 12 – 13 hands (1.2 – 1.3 m).

Breed history

The Dulmen was found near the town of Duelmen, in the Merfelder Bruch area where ponies have been documented since the early 1300s. It is believed that the Dulmen developed for primitive types, as it still has some primitive characteristics. Events Beginning of the Renaissance. ...

The ponies lived in wild herds across Westphalia until the 19th century, when land was divided and separated and the ponies began to lose their habitat. There is only one wild herd left today, owned by the Duke of Croy, that roams 860 acres (3.5 km²) of the Meerfelder Bruch. The Dukes of Croy first helped the herd in the mid-1800s. Westphalia (in German, Westfalen) is a (historic) region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and now included in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia (and the (south-)west of Lower Saxony). ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The ponies are left to find food and shelter, must cope with illness and death. Therefore, only the strongest in the herd survive, promoting the toughness of the breed, and making them resistant to disease. Once a year, on the last Saturday of May, the ponies are rounded off and the colts separated. The colts are sold at a public auction, and the mares are returned with only one or two stallions. This article is about the month of May. ... The term Colt, when used by itself, can refer to: A firearm produced by Colts Manufacturing Company, founded by Samuel Colt. ...

The ponies make good childrens ponies and adapt to domesticated life well. They are also good for driving in harness, and are also used to work the land.