- Woensel
Woensel is a former village in the Dutch province of
North Brabant , now part ofEindhoven .An important rural village in
North Brabant , Woensel is mentioned in documents before 1000 as the seat of adeanage of thediocese of Liège . Around 1200,Eindhoven , a fortification on theDommel 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. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ] Even at that time it had more inhabitants than the central city and even the railway station of Eindhoven was on Woensels territory. The territory of the former municipality is home to roughly half of the more than 200,000 inhabitants of the city. For the largest part it consists of suburban neighbourhoods built between 1950 and 1990.
References
External links
* [http://www.ouwwoensel.nl/ old pictures of Woensel, with explanations (in Dutch)]
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/nb/woensel.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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