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The Schildhorn, the Jürgenlanke and the denkmalgeschützte Ensemble Wirtshaus Schildhorn were a favorite destination for Berlin's Sunday excursionists in the 1880s. The decline in excursion restaurants after the World War II led to a loss of function and attractiveness of the area, which the Berlin Senate could only partially compensate for despite targeted countermeasures.

In addition to the Havel landscape and the restaurants, visitors are attracted by the Schildhorn monument, which Friedrich August Stüler designed in 1845 based on pencil sketches by Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. The monument was one of a sculptural group of three with which the king in the "often dead and uninteresting areas" of Mark Brandenburg Brandenburg]] to mark turning points in the state's history. It still exists, but has largely fallen into oblivion. The pillar, also known as the "Shield Horn Cross", symbolizes the Shield Horn Legend from the 19th century about the Slavic prince Jacza von Köpenick, who is said to have fled from Albrecht the Bear through the Havel here in 1157, the year the Margraviate of Brandenburg was founded. In gratitude for his rescue, Jacza professed Christianity and hung his shield and horn on a tree. Since then, the headland has been called Schildhorn.

Oil painting Schildhorndenkmal by Eduard Gaertner, 1848

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