The Schildbürger are a topic in German chapbook tradition corresponding to the Wise Men of Gotham in English-language tradition.
The "people of Schilda", of a fictitious German town of "Schilda", figure in short tales, known as Schildbürgerstreiche. Alongside Till Eulenspiegel, the Schildbürger chapbooks are the best-known collection of the prankster type in German literary tradition.
The oldest known edition was printed in Strasbourg in 1597 under the title of Lalenbuch. Here, the town was known as Lalenburg and its inhabitants Lalen. The second edition, printed in 1598, changed this to Die Schiltbürger.
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Coordinates 51°27'21.379" N 12°55'45.38" E
