Piber Federal Stud

The Piber Federal Stud is a stud farm devoted to the breeding of Lipizzan horses, positioned on the village of Piber, close to the town of Koflach in western Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1798, began breeding Lipizzan horses in 1920, and today is the number one breeding farm that produces the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School, wherein the first-class stallions of each era bred at Piber are brought for schooling and later public performance. One of Piber’s main goals is "to uphold a large part of Austria’s cultural history and to hold one of the pleasant and most lovely horse breeds in its unique shape." Piber Castle became previously the Abbey of St. Lambrecht.

The stud become created 1798 for the motive of breeding military horses. In 1867, it came beneath the governance of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Ministry for Agriculture. In 1915, at the start of World War I, the Lipizzan horses from the Court Stud at Lipica were evacuated and placed at Laxenburg and Kladrub. Following the struggle, the Austro-Hungarian Empire became damaged up, with Lipica turning into part of Italy.