A shading device having at least one awning and having at least one winding device, which is provided for winding and unwinding the awning and which has a rigging that is stretched taut along a side or a diagonal of the awning, which rigging is rotationally coupled to the windable and unwindable awning. In order to embody this shading device in a particularly durable fashion, it is proposed for the rigging to be embodied as torsionally rigid or low-torsion and for it to be rotationally coupled to the awning over the entire length of the side or diagonal of the awning.