Schanzenfeld is a small hanlet community in the Rural Municipality of Stanley, Manitoba, Canada, located about 2 miles south of the City of Winkler.
The village was named after Jacob Yost Shantz, a businessman from Ontario who helped Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonites migrate from Imperial Russia to southern Manitoba.
He visited areas of southern Manitoba in 1872 to explore possibilities for Mennonite settlement.
The community is first noted on a Department of the Interior map in 1881.
It opened a post office ion 21-2-4W in 1884 but it was soon moved to Winkler on 4-3-4W.