Woensel

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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. Today, Woensel is formally a district of Eindhoven, home to roughly half of its over 200,000 inhabitants.

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http://www.ouwwoensel.nl/: old pictures of Woensel, with explanations (in Dutch)

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