Schildau

Schildau City of Belgern-Schildau
	Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 21 ″ N , 12 ° 55 ′ 45 ″ E
Height :	127 m above sea level NN
Area :	20.5 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2013
Postal code :	04889
Area code :	034221
Location of Schildau in Saxony
	Church of St. Mary with mulberry tree from 1518

Schildau , a formerly independent town, has been part of the town of Belgern-Schildau in the northern Saxony district in the Free State of Saxony since January 1, 2013 . The place is known as Gneisenaustadt (1952–2012) and next to Schilda as a possible place of origin of the literary people of Schild .

Geography and traffic

Schildau is located south-southwest of Torgau on the northern edge of the Dahlener Heide and is almost completely surrounded by forest. The neighboring towns are the district town of Torgau (13 km), Wurzen (19 km) and Dahlen (13 km). The federal highway 87 runs north of the place. The Mockrehna – Schildau railway line , which was closed and dismantled in 1971, ended in Schildau . Large areas in the area are part of the Dahlener Heide landscape protection area .

history

Schildau was first mentioned in a document in 1170 . Some stone age finds prove that this area was already settled in prehistoric times. The Schilda variant can also be found on old maps (e.g. from Johann George Schreiber around 1750) and views (e.g. from R. Stieler, around 1870) .

In 1760 August Neidhardt von Gneisenau was born in Schildau, who later participated in the Prussian reforms after the defeat of Prussia by Napoleon Bonaparte and was promoted to field marshal .

From 1952 to 2012, the city bore the official nickname Gneisenaustadt . Sitzenroda and Probsthain have belonged to Schildau since January 1, 1994, and Kobershain and Taura since January 1, 1999 .

Schildau initially sought a merger with Torgau after other merger options with the municipalities of Dahlen, Mockrehna and Belgern had been rejected by the city council or mayor. Finally, on January 1, 2013, the merger with Belgians came about. Before the dissolution, the town of Schildau had the districts of Schildau, Sitzenroda , Probsthain, Kobershain and Taura.

politics

The local election on June 7, 2009 led to the following distribution of seats in the last city council, which lasted until the end of 2012:

FWG : 12 seats
CDU : 1 seat
SPD : 1 seat
LEFT : 1 seat
FDP : 1 seat

Schildbürgerbrunnen

Attractions

Church of St. Mary with a mulberry tree from 1518, station on the Luther Trail

Dahlener Heide with the Schildauer Berg ( 217.2 m above sea level ) and the Schildbergturm observation and fire watch tower (built in 1936, 26 meters high, with a diameter of 5.1 meters)

Wittes quarry ( quartz porphyry )

Hessler's gorge, also a porphyry quarry

Napoleonstein (here is to Napoleon stayed secretly in his hasty return from the failed invasion of Russia in 1812)

Gneisenau Museum

Museum of the Shield Citizens

Schildbürgerbrunnen by the Torgau sculptor Torsten Freche

town hall
museum
Gneisenau monument
Gneisenau monument, by Georg Meyer-Steglitz
Schildberg Tower

Personalities

August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, 1818

Memorial plaque to Ruth Kraft

Schildau's best-known son is August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau , Prussian field marshal and army reformer (1760–1831).

The Mayor of Düsseldorf Adalbert Oehler (1911–1919) was born in Schildau in 1860.

The writer Ruth Kraft (1920–2015) was born in Schildau and in 1953 published the work “Das Schildbürgerbuch von 1598”, a revision of the Schildbürger pranks. She was made an honorary citizen.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heun (1741–1812), electoral mountain ridge
Friedrich Wilhelm Hauffe (1845-1915), politician (German Conservative Party), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag (Kingdom of Saxony)
Lothar Bisky (1941–2013), where the politician (Die Linke) lived in the last years of his life

literature

An extensive tradition of the city of Schildau for the period 1592-1947 on imperial, constitutional and community affairs, finances, military and war affairs, health and social affairs, trade, commerce, agriculture, order and security police, fire protection, statistics, elections, School, church, building administration, the city court and registry office are located in the Saxon State Archives, Leipzig State Archives, stock 20624 City of Schildau.