Shield house
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A sentry house or Schilterhaus (also known as a guardhouse or as a diminutive guardhouse ) is a mobile or immobile shelter for military guards in front of barracks , military depots, prison camps, etc. Ä., In front of the seats of potentates and in front of memorials , earlier also in front of government seats and town halls .
As museum relics they can be found here and there on drawbridges in front of castles and ramparts .
Sign houses are mostly made of wood, measure around 1.50 × 1.00 m in plan and are 2.5 to 3 m high. They have a roof and a sufficient wall opening on the broader front side so that a soldier with a rifle can enter the sentry house in the rain and snow or in summer in extreme sunlight. They rarely have a bench to sit on, but they often have 2 openings on the side as a lookout.
Shield houses are usually painted conspicuously, for example with diagonal stripes in the national colors : black and white for Prussia , white and blue for Bavaria or red and white for the Hanseatic cities , or in the colors of the armed forces . Occasionally, coats of arms are attached to them as external signs .
In or in front of the sentry house there is a single post as a sentinel whose name comes from the task of guarding parked or stored shields and weapons.
literature
- Peter Wacker: Sentry houses. In: Zeitschrift für Heeres- und Uniformkunde , published by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV , Volume 24, No. 170 (= Issue IV / 1960) from July / August 1960, pages 49–53; Continuation in No. 171 (= Issue V / 1960) from September / October 1960, pp. 80–85; and Volume 25, No. 173 (= Heft I / 1961) from January / February 1961, pp. 11-14; and no. 177 (= issue V / 1961) from September / October 1961, pp. 88–95 (all 4 parts each with illustrations: black and white drawings).
