Woensel
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Woensel is a former village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, now a neighbourhood of Eindhoven.
An important rural village in North Brabant, Woensel is mentioned in documents before 1000 as the seat of a deanage of the diocese of Liège. Around 1200, Eindhoven, a fortification on the Dommel river to the south of Woensel, grew into a local market town, and took more political prominence, but it did not surpass Woensel in prosperity or population.
Woensel was a separate municipality until 1920, when it became part of Eindhoven.[1] The territory of the former municipality is home to roughly half of the more than 200,000 inhabitants of the city.
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