South German Coldblood

South German Coldblood
Conservation status
  • FAO (2007): not at risk
  • DAD-IS (2025): at risk/endangered
Other names
  • German: Süddeutsches Kaltblut
  • Noriker (obsolete)
  • Pinzgauer (obsolete)
  • Oberländer (obsolete)
Country of originGermany
Traits
Weight
  • Female:
    average 500 kg
Height
  • Male:
    average 164 cm
  • Female:
    average 160 cm
Colourusually flaxen chestnut; also bay, black, grey or Leopard-spotted
Breed standards

The South German Coldblood, German: Süddeutsches Kaltblut, is a breed of draught horse from southern Germany. It is distributed mainly in Bavaria. It is the most numerous of the four principal German draught horse breeds – the others being the Black Forest Horse, the Rhenish German Coldblood and the Schleswig Coldblood – and is the only one not listed as endangered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations or by the Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung alter und gefährdeter Haustierrassen, the German national association for the conservation of historic and endangered domestic animal breeds.