Shields (sages)

Shields Community wise Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	24 m
Residents :	132  (2006)
Incorporation :	May 1st 1973
Postal code :	19322
Location of Schilde in Brandenburg
Village church

Schilde is a place in the district of Prignitz (Brandenburg). Since May 1, 1973, the formerly independent municipality has been part of the municipality of Weisen . It is located about one and a half kilometers northwest of the main town.

history

The first written mention of Schilde comes from the year 1339. The name is derived from the shield-shaped parcel on which the village lies. In 1240 a stone church was built. The altar wall and the pulpit of this oldest preserved stone church in the state of Brandenburg date from the Baroque period. Schilde, an anger village, was owned by the noble von Graevenitz family in the Middle Ages , whose knight seat was mentioned in 1433. In a pamphlet from 1438 the dukes of Mecklenburg complained about the raids by the Prignitz nobility. Among other things, "de Graevenitzen tom Schilde" were called.

On May 1, 1973, the former community of Schilde, about three kilometers from Weisen, was incorporated into Weisen.

Population development

year	1875	1890	1910	1925	1933	1946	2006
population	267	230	215	221	224	349	132

Culture and sights

Buildings

In the autumn of 2016, renovation work was carried out in the crypt of the von Graevenitz family in Schilde. At the same time, specialists also examined the coffins from the 17th and 18th centuries with their contents and the remains of those buried. The human remains were found without a certain connection to the coffins, as some of them had decayed to a considerable extent and the contents were scattered on the crypt floor. Mummies, mummified tissue and well-preserved individual bones were found, which could be combined to form 14 individuals: nine adults, one adolescent and four small children, four of them men and six women (including the adolescents female). The sex of the children could not be determined. The average height for men was 172.3 cm and for women 154.3 cm. Noticeable diseases were two possible cases of bone tumors as well as dental diseases in the form of severe tartar infestation and dental caries . Two of the children were believed to have rickets .

literature

• Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - N-Z . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-033-3 , pp. 787 ff .

Web links

• Shields in the historical gazette of the Verein für Computergenealogie

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, October 16, 2006, p. 9
2. ↑ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Prignitz district . P. 37
3. ^ The Genealogical Place Directory: Shields
4. ^ Project shields, crypt of the von Graevenitz family. In: anthropologie-jungklaus.de. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .