Schleiden

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Coat of arms of the city of Schleiden
Schleiden
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Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Euskirchen
Height : 370 m above sea level NHN
Area : 121.67 km 2
Residents: 13,128 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 108 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 53937
Primaries : 02445, 02444, 02485
License plate : EU, SLE
Community key : 05 3 66 036
LOCODE : DE SCV
City structure: 18 districts

City administration address : 		Blankenheimer Strasse 2-4
53937 Schleiden
Website : www.schleiden.de
Mayor : Ingo Pfennings ( CDU )
Location of the city of Schleiden in the Euskirchen district
Belgien Rheinland-Pfalz Kreis Düren Rhein-Erft-Kreis Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Städteregion Aachen Bad Münstereifel Blankenheim (Ahr) Dahlem (Nordeifel) Euskirchen Hellenthal Kall Mechernich Nettersheim Schleiden Weilerswist Zülpichmap
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City view of Schleiden
Schleiden, roundabout with national park logo

Schleiden is a town in the Eifel in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The city is crossed by the Olef from south to north . Schleiden was from 1829 to 1971 the district town of the Schleiden district .

Schleiden, aerial photo (2015)

City structure

The city is divided into 18 localities (residents with main residence, as of March 2019):

Locality Residents
Berescheid 187
Broich 354
Bronsfeld 560
Thriorn 947
Ettelscheid 265
Gemünd 3,821
Harperscheid 419
Herhahn 458
Kerperscheid 79
Morsbach 525
Nierfeld 449
Oberhausen 827
Olefin 1.105
Shame 357
Schleiden 2,228
Schöneseiffen 425
Wintzen 72
Wolf garden 213
All in all 13,291

Neighboring communities

history

In the Middle Ages and early modern times, the place was the center of a rule , later the Grafschaft Schleiden , which was itself part of the Duchy of Luxembourg , from 1441/43 within the framework of the Netherlands (first under the Burgundians, then the Habsburgs). Remained after the division of the Netherlandsthe Duchy of Luxembourg with Schleiden at the Spanish line of the Habsburgs . After the War of the Spanish Succession , the Duchy of Luxembourg, still with Schleiden, came to the Austrian line of the House of Habsburg . When revolutionary France conquered the Austrian Netherlands in 1794/95 , the Duchy of Luxembourg was soon divided into the three departments of Forêts , Sambre-et-Meuse and Ourthe . Schleiden came to the Département Ourthe (main town Liège , fr. Liège ). At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the former Luxembourg territories east of the Our , Sauer and Moselle rivers were assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Schleiden thus became "Prussian" and in 1871 part of the German Empire .

The small town of Schleiden has produced two important humanists : Johannes Sleidanus and Johannes Sturm , also known as Ioannes Sturmius.

In 1944 the battle of Wahlerscheid took place nearby .

City foundation

The town of Schleiden has existed since January 1, 1972. It is by amalgamation

  • the former cities of Gemünd and Schleiden,
  • the non-official community of Dreiborn (without Einruhr and deer scrap ),
  • the official municipalities of Broich, Bronsfeld, Harperscheid, Oberhausen and Schöneseiffen,
  • the district Kerperscheid of the municipality of Hellenthal and
  • the district of Wintzen of the municipality of Kall

in accordance with the law for the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen of December 14, 1971 (GV. NW. p. 414). The area north of the Urfttalsperre , which previously belonged to Heimbach, was also incorporated .

politics

Allocation of seats in the city council
     
A total of 28 seats
Local election 2014
Turnout: 51.58% (2009: 60.22%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
44.62%
19.44%
18.01%
10.81%
7.11%
no
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+ 2.78  % p.p.
+1.61  % p
-2.84  % p.p.
+ 0.13  % p.p.
+1.34  % p.p.
-3.03  % p
Otherwise.

City council

The city ​​council is the municipal representative of the people of Schleiden. The citizens decide on the composition every five years. The last election took place on May 25, 2014.

mayor

The mayors in office since 1972 are listed below:

  • 1972–1975: Max Fesenmeyer (independent)
  • 1975–1984: Herbert Hermesdorf (CDU)
  • 1984–1995: Alois Sommer (CDU)
  • 1995–1997: Dieter Wolter (CDU)
  • 1997-2004: Christoph Lorbach (CDU)
  • 2004–2012: Ralf Hergarten (independent)
  • 2012–2018: Udo Meister (FDP)
  • since 2018: Ingo Pfennings (CDU)

City Directors

  • 1960–1987: Paul-Werner Knebel
  • 1987–1991: Hans Pixa (CDU)
  • 1991-1996: Gregor Micus

Town twinning

Schleiden has had a partnership with the French Pont-l'Abbé since 1978 .

Coat of arms and banner

  • Banner of the city of Schleiden

  • Coat of arms of the city of Schleiden until 1976

  • Coat of arms of the former city of Gemünd

The city of Schleiden was granted permission to use a coat of arms, a seal and a banner with a certificate from the district president in Cologne dated August 19, 1976.

Schleiden coat of arms
 Blazon : "With nine gold lilies sprinkled a rightward facing gelbbekrönten, zweigeschwänzten, rotbezungten, white lions border."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The basic color green is taken from the coat of arms of the former city of Gemünd. The lion shown comes from the former coat of arms of Schleiden. He was already the heraldic animal of the rule (since 1602 county) Schleiden. The nine lilies in the green field represent the cities of Gemünd and Schleiden, the Harperscheid office and the municipalities of Broich, Bronsfeld, Dreiborn, Harperscheid, Oberhausen and Schöneseiffen in the city arms.

The banner is green and shows the coat of arms in the banner field as described in paragraph 2 of the main statute, but free without a shield.

Culture and sights

Schleiden Castle Church of St Philip and James

Natural monuments

Between 1900 and 1905 the Urfttalsperre was built as the largest European dam at the time. Today it belongs to the Eifel National Park .

Attractions

Schleiden Castle, aerial photo (2015)

Olef Valley Railway

MAN rail bus of the Oleftalbahn at Hp. Blumenthal

At the station Schleiden who held Oleftalbahn ( Kall - Hellenthal ); regular passenger traffic was discontinued in 1981 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn . Because of the Eifel National Park , which was newly established in 2004 , the state of North Rhine-Westphalia supported tourism through a two-year program for passenger transport in the excursion season on Sundays and public holidays. If the journeys ended in 2004 in the Gemünd district, they continued to Schleiden in 2005. The regional rail transport was organized by the Rhein-Sieg transport association , and Rurtalbahn GmbH was the operator. Regular traffic ended on October 16, 2005. Since 2006, the transport has been privately operated as a museum railway in the summer season, with the 2008 season from the Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn . As of 2010, the trains will run to the Hellenthal terminus again , using a historic MAN rail bus.

Until 1997 there was regular freight traffic via Schleiden to Hellenthal, then only military traffic to Schleiden-Höddelbusch (tank loading ramp). The last troop shipments took place there in winter 2002 with diesel and steam locomotives from a private railway. Belgium gave up the Vogelsang military training area on January 1, 2006. The area on the Dreiborn plateau was used for civil purposes (documentation center and hiking area).

traffic

The urban area of ​​Schleiden is part of the transport network Rhein-Sieg (VRS) and is served by various lines of public transport. There are also line connections in the Aachen and Düren area of ​​the AVV .

Local public transport

Schleiden is located in the network area of ​​the Rhein-Sieg transport association (VRS) . The VRS bus routes are operated by Regionalverkehr Köln (RVK). Schleiden is also served by the Aachen Transport Association (AVV).

Lines in the VRS
line course
815
 Forest line: Kall Bf - Gemünd - Monschau
829
 Kall Bf - Gemünd - Schleiden - Hellenthal
831
 Gemünd - Herhahn - Morsbach - Dreiborn - Schleiden
895
 Wolfgarten - Gemünd - Malsbenden - Salzberg
SB82
 National Park Shuttle : Kall - Vogelsang
Line in the AVV
line course
63 Simmerath  - Einruhr  - Vogelsang (- Schleiden )


231 Düren Bf / ZOB  - StadtCenter  - Kaiserplatz  - Josefskirche  - Stockheim  - Froitzheim  - Ginnick  - Embken  - ( Muldenau  ←) Wollersheim  - Vlatten  - Hergarten  - Heimbach  Bf - ( Hasenfeld  - Schwammenauel  - Kermeter  - Urfttalsperre / Hastenbach  - / Mariawald Abbey  -) Wolfgarten  - Gemünd  - Nierfeld  - Olef  - Schleiden

Economy and Infrastructure

Until 2008 Schleiden was one of nine Ardagh Glass Germany GmbH locations for the manufacture of container glass in Germany.

dishes

Schleiden has a district court in Sarreguemines, which the District Court of Aachen and the Higher Regional Court -Bezirk Cologne belongs.

education

The following schools exist in the city:

  • Municipal Johannes-Sturmius-Gymnasium Schleiden
  • Clara-Fey-Gymnasium Schleiden (sponsor is the diocese of Aachen)
  • Clara-Fey-Realschule Schleiden (sponsor is the diocese of Aachen)
  • Municipal secondary school Schleiden
  • Schleiden primary school
  • Primary School Gemünd
  • Elementary School Dreiborn
  • Astrid Lindgren School Schleiden

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Memorial stone to Eifel painter Albert Larres , below the castle

People connected to the city

  • Clemens Freiherr von Harff (1821–1895), district administrator from 1863 to 1895
  • Hermann von Schlechtendal (1859–1920), district administrator from 1895 to 1906
  • Albert Kreuzberg (1871–1916), District Administrator from 1906 to 1916
  • Bruno Klausener (* 1887, † after 1957), District Administrator from 1945 to 1948
  • Josef Schramm (1901–1991), District Administrator from 1933 to 1945
  • Henning Walter (* 1950), head of the Schleiden State Forestry Office from 2001, has been the Chief Forestry Director of the Eifel National Park Forestry Office and thus the National Park Administration since January 2004.
  • Maf Räderscheidt (* 1952) draftsman, painter and performance artist, lives in Schleiden.
  • Christoph Leisten (* 1960) writer and teacher, has been working in Schleiden since 1996.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Schleiden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Sleiden in the Topographia Circuli Burgundici (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ City of Schleiden: population statistics (PDF; 20 kB)
  3. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen (Aachen Law)
  4. ^ City of Schleiden. Council election - overall result. May 25, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Administrative management since 1972 on the official website of the city of Schleiden
  6. ↑ Paul Knebel died at Kölnische Rundschau on June 7, 2010
  7. ↑ Main statute of the city of Schleiden, § 2. (PDF; 111 kB) Accessed December 7, 2015 .
  8. ^ Military train on January 28, 2002 in Schleiden