Schleiden

For the German botanist, see Matthias Jakob Schleiden.

Schleiden
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Schleiden within Euskirchen district
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Euskirchen
Government
• Mayor	Udo Meister (FDP)
Area
• Total	122.09 km2 (47.14 sq mi)
Elevation	456 m (1,496 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)
• Total	13,233
• Density	110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	53937
Dialling codes	02445
Vehicle registration	EU, SLE
Website	www.schleiden.de

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.

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