Woensel
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- urban district of the Netherlands
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- Netherlands
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- Eindhoven
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Woensel is a former town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, but nowadays a borough of Eindhoven.
An important rural village in North Brabant, Woensel is mentioned in a document from 1107; it was the seat of a deanage of the diocese of Liège. According to the German mythologist Jacob Grimm the name Woensel is a reference to the Germanic god Wodan (Odin in Norse mythology). The suffix would have been an abbreviation of either -sala ("hall") or -loo ("forest").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Woensel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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