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Country
  
Germany

Admin. region
  
Köln

Elevation
  
456 m (1,496 ft)

State
  
North Rhine-Westphalia

District
  
Euskirchen

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Schleiden

Schleiden is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It lies in the Eifel hills, in the district of Euskirchen, and has 17.628 inhabitants as of 2016. Schleiden is connected by a tourist railway to Kall, on the Eifel Railway between Cologne and Trier. The town consists of 18 settlements, the largest of which are Gemünd and Schleiden proper.

Contents

  • 1972−1975: Max Fesenmeyer (independent)
  • 1975−1984: Herbert Hermesdorf (1914-1999) (CDU)
  • 1984−1995: Alois Sommer (CDU)
  • 1995−1997: Dieter Wolter (CDU)
  • 1997−2004: Christoph Lorbach (CDU)
  • 2004−2012: Ralf Hergarten (independent)
  • since 2012: Udo Meister (FDP)

    • Education

    There are the following schools in the city:

  • Municipal High School
  • Clara-Fey-High School, Schleiden (carrier is the diocese of Aachen)
  • Municipal Secondary School
  • Primary school
  • Elementary school
  • Elementary school Gemünd
  • Elementary school Dreiborn
  • Astrid Lindgren School, Schleiden

    • Public figures

  • Johannes Sturm (Sturmius) (1507–1589), educator and scholar of the Renaissance, a professor in Paris and founder of the University of Strasbourg
  • Johannes Sleidanus (1506–1556), historian, professor, Schleiden / Strasbourg
  • Leopold Schoeller (1792–1884), industrialist and Privy Councillor of Commerce
  • Gustav Poensgen (1824–1904), industrialist and Privy Councillor of Commerce
  • Rudolf Poensgen (1826–1895), industrialist and councillor of commerce
  • Carl Poensgen (1838–1921), industrialist and Privy Councillor of Commerce
  • Larres Albert (1900–1987), painter
  • Francis Albert Heinen (born 1953), journalist and nonfiction writer
  • George Schreiber (born 1958), photographer
  • Vera Hilger (born 1971), painter

    • References

    Schleiden Wikipedia
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