Schilda (Brandenburg)

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Elbe Elster
Office :	Elsterland
Height :	137 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.69 km 2
Residents:	442 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	03253
Area code :	035326
License plate :	EE, FI, LIB
Community key :	12 0 62 440
Office administration address:	Kindergartenstrasse 2a ; 03253 Schönborn
Website :	www.elsterland.de
Mayor :	Lothar Benning
Location of the community of Schilda in the Elbe-Elster district

Schilda ( Lower Sorbian Šydłow ) is a municipality in the south of Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district . The community belongs to the Elsterland office . The administrative seat of the office is the municipality of Schönborn .

geography

The community is located in an agricultural part in the far west of the historic Niederlausitz . It is surrounded by the communities Doberlug-Kirchhain , Tröbitz and Uebigau-Wahrenbrück .

history

Schilda as part of the Dobrilug as shields

Schilda was first mentioned in a document in 1300. The place was from December 1300 to 1335 in the possession of the de Ileburg . In 1335 they sold the village to the Dobrilugk Monastery and Schilda was occupied by German settlers. It remained in the possession of the monastery until 1541. In 1335 a productive wine-growing and wine-press operation started from the monastery . The cellar house on the road from Schilda to Langennaundorf is a reminder of the existence of a vineyard at that time . In the following years, the vineyards fell away and disappeared completely in the 19th century.

Even if the place is unlikely to be the historical Schilda , old traditions reveal the special way of life of the people. So it is said that they did without the useless display of windows on the north side of the church. Around 1800 the lawn iron stone brought a little additional income. It was delivered to the Lauchhammer ironworks . In April 1856 the part of the village south of the church burned down completely.

In earlier times there were a total of three brickworks on the territory of the municipality . Brick production was very labor-intensive in the past centuries. The population development from 1900 to 1910 shows that the lignite industry became the main source of income for many residents. The coal industry experienced a heyday again after 1945. The lignite plant later became an agricultural machinery company . The political turning point in 1989 brought about a major upheaval in the working life of the residents. Employers in the vicinity, such as agricultural machinery and briquette factories , were not profitable enough and were closed.

Schilda had belonged to the Luckau district in the province of Brandenburg since 1816 , and to the Finsterwalde district in the GDR district of Cottbus from 1952 to 1990 . The community has been in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg since 1993

Population development

year	Residents
1875	324
1890	387
1910	648
1925	703
1933	741
1939	815
1946	932
1950	973
1964	833

year	Residents
1971	793
1981	758
1985	748
1989	718
1990	723
1991	697
1992	687
1993	674
1994	672

year	Residents
1995	667
1996	678
1997	672
1998	655
1999	638
2000	629
2001	620
2002	606
2003	583
2004	569

year	Residents
2005	547
2006	530
2007	527
2008	516
2009	513
2010	490
2011	507
2012	498
2013	496
2014	482

year	Residents
2015	484
2016	467
2017	476
2018	454
2019	442

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council of Schilda consists of seven community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Schilda voters group	6th
Single applicant Kathleen Fröschke	1

Kathleen Fröschke's share of the vote corresponds to two seats. Therefore, according to § 48 (6) of the Brandenburg Local Election Act, a seat in the municipal council remains vacant.

mayor

2001-2014: Diana Schmidt
since 2014: Lothar Benning (Schilda voter group)

Benning was elected in the mayoral election on May 26, 2019 with 72.4% of the valid votes for a term of five years without a candidate.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on June 1, 1994.

Blazon : "A walking silver horse in green."

Sights and culture

In the list of architectural monuments in Schilda (Brandenburg) and in the list of ground monuments in Schilda (Brandenburg) are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

Several places, including Schilda, claim that the conditions in their city were the model for the stories about the Schild citizens . However, there is no historical proof of this link. Even the unusual lack of windows in the north side of the Schilda church should not be sufficient evidence of the shield bourgeoisie in Schilda.

The Schildaer Dorfkirche (built in 1450) is a medieval building with a rectangular floor plan. The walls are made of granite boulders and lawn iron stone. The almost square tower was added later.

Active clubs in Schilda are the youth club and the volunteer fire brigade with their numerous events.