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 didn't surpass Woensel in prosperity or population. Woensel was a separate municipality unt… (More on Woensel)