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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.EducationThere 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 GemündElementary school DreibornAstrid Lindgren School, SchleidenPublic figuresJohannes Sturm (Sturmius) (1507–1589), educator and scholar of the Renaissance, a professor in Paris and founder of the University of StrasbourgJohannes Sleidanus (1506–1556), historian, professor, Schleiden / StrasbourgLeopold Schoeller (1792–1884), industrialist and Privy Councillor of CommerceGustav Poensgen (1824–1904), industrialist and Privy Councillor of CommerceRudolf Poensgen (1826–1895), industrialist and councillor of commerceCarl Poensgen (1838–1921), industrialist and Privy Councillor of CommerceLarres Albert (1900–1987), painter Francis Albert Heinen (born 1953), journalist and nonfiction writerGeorge Schreiber (born 1958), photographerVera Hilger (born 1971), painter
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