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De stad Eindhoven ontstond op een hoger gelegen terrein tussen de riviertjes de Dommel en de Gender. Zij kreeg al in 1232 stadsrechten en marktrecht van hertog Hendrik I van Brabant. Eindhoven moet gezien worden als een gestichte (en niet geleidelijk gegroeide) nederzetting binnen de stedenpolitiek van Hendrik I. Op de plaats van het oude kasteel uit de vijftiende eeuw ligt nu villa Ravensdonck, dichtbij het augustijnenklooster Mariënhage. In 1583 werd na het Beleg van Eindhoven de omwalling weer afgebroken. Binnen de wallen lag de middeleeuwse St.-Catharinakerk, die in 1860 werd afgebroken en werd vervangen door de huidige neogotische kerk. De huidige kerk uit 1867 werd ontworpen door Pierre Cuypers en valt op door een koor naar het westen. Tussen 2004 en 2006 werd het koor van de middeleeuwse St.-Catharinakerk met de daarin en eromheen begraven stoffelijke overblijfselen, opgegraven onder leiding van de Eindhovense stadsarcheoloog Nico Arts. Ten gevolge van de industriële ontwikkeling trokken de Eindhovense fabrieken rond 1900 steeds meer werknemers aan. Dat waren onder meer de textielfabrieken van Elias, De Haes, de Bara (afgeleid van Baekers en Raymakers), tabaksverwerkers (Mignot & De Block, Henri van Abbe en Lurmans), stoomlederfabriek Gebroeders Keunen, de Koninklijke lucifersfabrieken Mennen & Keunen, sigarenkistmaker Brüning en de gloeilampenfabriek Philips vanaf 1891. De stad had economisch profijt van de fabrieken en fabrikanten. Stratumseind, daags na de bevrijding, op 19 september 1944 In 1920 ontstond de huidige gemeente Eindhoven, toen ook wel Groot-Eindhoven genaamd, uit een fusie van de oorspronkelijke gemeente Eindhoven, die niet veel meer dan de huidige binnenstad omvatte, met de omliggende gemeenten Strijp, Woensel, Gestel, Tongelre en Stratum. Sindsdien zijn er enkele kleinere annexaties en grenscorrecties geweest, waarbij een deel van de voormalige gemeente Geldrop en later een deel van de gemeente Veldhoven werden toegevoegd, het laatste voor de bouw van de Vinexwijk Meerhoven. In het interbellum was er een groot woningtekort voor de vele arbeiders. Dit was ook zo voor de omliggende gemeenten. Op 18 september 1944 werd Eindhoven bevrijd door de geallieerden. De bevrijding was onderdeel van Operatie Market Garden. De bevrijding wordt nog elk jaar gevierd met de Lichtjesroute. Volgens de gegevens van het Joods Historisch Museum leefden er vóór de oorlog ongeveer 430 joden en in 1950 200. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog heeft de autofabriek DAF, hoewel vóór de oorlog opgericht, fors bijgedragen aan de expansie. In 2003 gaven ruim 9.500 bedrijven in de regio werk aan bijna 130.000 mensen
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The name Eindhoven derives from the contraction of the regional words eind (meaning last or end) and hove (or hoeve; a section of some 14 hectares of land). "Eind" is toponymically a common prefix and postfix in local place- and streetnames. A "hove" was a parcel of land that might be given in leasehold to private persons such as farmers by the local lord. Taken in conjunction with the fact that a string of such parcels existed around Woensel, the original location of Eindhoven may be understood to be the "last hove on the land of Woensel". The written history of Eindhoven started in 1232, when Duke Hendrik I of Brabant granted city rights to Endehoven, then a small town right on the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams. At the time of granting of its charter, Eindhoven had approximately 170 houses enclosed by a rampart. Just outside of the city walls stood a small castle. The city was also granted the right to organize a weekly market and the farmers in nearby villages were obliged to come to Eindhoven to sell their produce. Another factor in its establishment was its location on the trade route from Holland to Liège. Around 1388, the city's fortifications were strengthened further. And between 1413 and 1420, a new castle was built within the city walls. In 1486, Eindhoven was plundered and burned by troops from Guelders. The reconstruction was finished in 1502, with a stronger rampart and a new castle. However, in 1543 Eindhoven fell again: its defense works having been neglected due to poverty. A big fire in 1554 destroyed 75% of the houses but by 1560 these had been rebuilt with the help of William I of Orange. During the Dutch Revolt, Eindhoven changed hands between the Dutch and the Spanish several times during which it was burned down by renegade Spanish soldiers, until finally in 1583 it was captured once more by Spanish troops and its city walls were demolished. Eindhoven did not become part of the Netherlands until 1629. During the French occupation, Eindhoven suffered again with many of its houses destroyed by the invading forces. Eindhoven remained a minor city after that until the start of the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution of the 19th century provided a major growth impulse. Canals, roads and railroads were constructed. Eindhoven was connected to the major Zuid-Willemsvaart canal through the Eindhovens Kanaal branch in 1843 and was connected by rail to Tilburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Venlo and Belgium between 1866 and 1870. Industrial activities initially centred around tobacco andtextile and boomed with the rise of lighting and electronics giant Philips, which was founded as a light bulb manufacturing company in Eindhoven in 1891. Industrialization brought population growth to Eindhoven. At the establishment of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815, Eindhoven had 2.310 inhabitants. By 1920, it was 47.946; by 1925 it was 63.870 and in 1935 that had ballooned to 103.030.[2] The explosive growth of industry in the region and the subsequent housing needs of workers called for radical changes in administration, as the City of Eindhoven was still confined to its medieval moat city limits. In 1920, the five neighbouring municipalities of Woensel (to the north), Tongelre (northeast and east), Stratum (southeast),Gestel en Blaarthem (southwest) and Strijp (west), which already bore the brunt of the housing needs and related problems, were incorporated into the new Groot-Eindhoven ("Greater Eindhoven") municipality. The prefix "Groot-" was later dropped. After the incorporation of 1920, the five former municipalities became districts of the Municipality of Eindhoven, with Eindhoven-Centrum (the City proper) forming the sixth. Since then, an additional seventh district has been formed by dividing the largest district, that of Woensel, into Woensel-Zuid and Woensel-Noord. The early 20th century saw additions in technical industry with the advent of car and truck manufacturing company Van Doorne's Automobiel Fabriek (DAF) and the subsequent shift towards electronics and engineering, with the traditional tobacco and textile industries waning and finally disappearing in the 1970s. Monument on the market square commemorating the 1944 liberation by the US101st Airborne Division and the British 30th Corps. The inscription reads Wie vrijheid wil, moet de ander vrijheid bieden (He who wants freedom, must give it to others) . Large-scale air raids in World War II, including the preliminary bombing during Operation Market Garden to aid the US 101st Airborne Divisionparatroopers in securing the bridges in and around the town on 18 September 1944, destroyed large parts of the city. The reconstruction that followed left very little historical remains and the post-war reconstruction period saw drastic renovation plans in highrise style, some of which were implemented. At the time, there was little regard for historical heritage; in the 1960s, a new city hall was built and its neo-gothic predecessor (1867) demolished to make way for a planned arterial road that never materialised. The 1970s, 1980s and 1990s saw large-scale housing developments in the districts of Woensel-Zuid and Woensel-Noord, making Eindhoven the fifth-largest city in the Netherlands. At the start of the 21st century, a whole new housing development called Meerhoven was constructed at the site of the old airport of Welschap, west of Eindhoven. The airport itself, now called Eindhoven Airport, had moved earlier to a new location, paving the way for much needed new houses. Meerhoven is part of the Strijp district and partially lies on lands annexed from the municipality of Veldhoven. In the 2000s decade, Eindhoven emerged as the capital of Dutch industrial design. The Design Academy Eindhoven has produced major Dutch designers, such as Maarten Baas, Marcel Wanders, Richard Hutten, Jurgen Bey, and Hella Jongerius. The school also has a strong affiliation with droog design. In 2003, Time Magazine called the Academy, "The School of Cool." Due to the fame of the D.A.E, Eindhoven has been able to grow in the design industry with such events as the Dutch Design Week, that takes place every October. While most of Philips' industries have moved out, the Philips Design Bureau is still in Eindhoven.
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