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Voorst
Municipality
De Vecht
De Vecht
Flag of Voorst
Flag
 Coat of arms of Voorst
Coat of arms
Highlighted position of Voorst in a municipal map of Gelderland
Location in Gelderland
Country Netherlands
Province Gelderland
Government
 • Body Municipal council
Area
 • Total 126.47 km2 (48.83 sq mi)
 • Land 123.07 km2 (47.52 sq mi)
 • Water 3.40 km2 (1.31 sq mi)
Elevation
6 m (20 ft)
Population
 (May 2014)
 • Total 23,860
 • Density 194/km2 (500/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Voorstenaar
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode
7382–7397, 7439
Area code 055, 0571
Voorst, camping-boerderij de Adelaar RM38043 foto2 2015-04-05 14.34
Voorst, camping-farm de Adelaar

Voorst (Dutch pronunciation: [voːrst]) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.

Population centres

  • Appen (near a wood where nice walks can be taken)
  • Bussloo (with a recreation centre with a small lake and beach)
  • De Kar (near a motorway junction (A1, Amsterdam- Berlin)
  • De Vecht
  • De Wijk
  • Gietelo (castle ruin of Nijenbeek on the IJssel dyke)
  • Klarenbeek (partly in the municipality Apeldoorn; small railroad station)
  • Klein-Amsterdam
  • Nijbroek
  • Posterenk (also near the A1, with an old Dutch wind-mill)
  • Spekhoek
  • Steenenkamer, actually an outskirt of Deventer
  • Terwolde
  • Teuge (with an airfield, where parachuting is taught)
  • Twello, half-way between Apeldoorn and Deventer, which is the main village of the municipality, having over 11,000 inhabitants; the town-hall, some industry, most schools, a railway station, a shopping centre etc. can be found there
  • Voorst, an old village along the road between Apeldoorn and Zutphen, with a beautiful old church; 1 mile south of Voorst, another small railroad station was opened in 2006
  • Wilp, a tiny village on the IJssel opposite to Deventer; it has a small, very old church and a hospital for mentally handicapped people; the village already existed in 768; Saint Lebuinus built a chapel there; the name is allegedly derived from wel-apa that is: well-water; it is possible, that prehistoric Celtic or Germanic people worshipped a holy well there.

Gem-Voorst-OpenTopo.jpg

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Voorst, June 2015

Notable people

W.A.A.J. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
W.A.A.J. Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
  • Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele (1806 in Voorst – 1890) the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1861/1866
  • Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans (1812 in Wilp - 1875) a Dutch organist, composer and music theorist
  • Anthony Winkler Prins (1817 in Voorst – 1908) a Dutch writer of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia.
  • Willem Anne Assueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1834 in Voorst – 1889) a Dutch baron and politician
  • Jan Terlouw (born 1931 in Kamperveen) a retired Dutch politician, physicist and author
  • Evert Jan Baerends (born 1945 in Voorst) a Dutch theoretical chemist and academic

Sport

  • Jan-Dirk Nijkamp (born 1964 in Voorst) a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
  • Jurgen Streppel (born 1969 in Voorst) a retired football player with 373 club caps
  • Robert Horstink (born 1981 in Twello) a volleyball player, competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics

Gallery

  • Terwolde-lochemsestraat-07080005

    Terwolde, Lochemsestraat

  • Voorst gemeentehuis

    Voorst gemeentehuis

  • Voorst; Maite Duval

    De gans, Voorst

  • De IJssel - panoramio

    The IJssel near Bussloo

See also

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