Eersel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈeːrsəl] ⓘ) is a municipality and a town in southern Netherlands in the province of North Brabant.

[4] About 3,500 years ago the first inhabitants of the area of Eersel were builders of sepulchre hillocks or burial mounds of the Tumulus culture.

Following them in the late Bronze Age the people of the Urnfield culture continued living there as has been proved by the urn with cremating ashes that has been found in ‘Schadewijk’.

In this document is a charter included in which a certain Aengilbertus, son of late Gaobertus, with approval of his brother Verengaotus gives the property of the domain Eresloch to Saint Willibrord.

Trading started to develop and Eersel became a cross point for the routes of Leuven and 's-Hertogenbosch and of Antwerp and Turnhout.

The new oval square became ‘de Markt’ (the Market) constructed for the trade as a parking place for carts.

In 1325 Eersel obtained the rights of ‘freedom’ (Town privileges) from Duke Jan III of Brabant.

This is the period of the ‘Teuten’ a traveling trading people, who were touring from village to village with artisan and merchant services, like coppersmith, wig-maker, also some veterinary surgeon like horse, ram, bull and pig castrating, and trade in goods like pottery, kitchen-utensil, bed-clothes, linen, lace, silk and other textile manufactures.

The original version of the church of Eersel was a simply wooden cottage and was possibly founded by the (Catholic) abbey of Echternach .

It is a combination of work of two famous organ builders: Bernard Petrus van Hirtum from Hilvarenbeek (1838) and the Smits Brothers from Reek (1852).

After the Peace of Münster it was closed for mass service and was used as Council house, as prison and repository for the fire-engine.