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

Voorst
Municipality
De Vecht
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Gelderland
Coordinates: 52°14′N 6°7′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Government [1]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Jos Penninx (PvdA)
Area [2]
• Total	126.47 km2 (48.83 sq mi)
• Land	122.97 km2 (47.48 sq mi)
• Water	3.50 km2 (1.35 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	6 m (20 ft)
Population  (January 2019)[4]
• Total	24,417
• Density	199/km2 (520/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Voorstenaar
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	7382–7397, 7439
Area code	055, 0571
Website	www.voorst.nl

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.

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Voorst, June 2015

Notable people

• 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

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  Terwolde, Lochemsestraat
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  Voorst gemeentehuis
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  De gans, Voorst
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  The IJssel near Bussloo

References

External links

• Media related to Voorst, Gelderland at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

На других языках

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[de] Voorst

Voorst ( anhören?/i) ist eine niederländische Gemeinde der Provinz Gelderland und hatte am 1. Januar 2022 nach Angaben des CBS 24.996 Einwohner. Ihre Gesamtfläche beträgt 126,47 km². Zur Gemeinde gehören das Dorf Twello, in dem über 13.000 Menschen leben und die Gemeindeverwaltung ihren Sitz hat, die kleineren Dörfer Voorst, Terwolde, Wilp, Nijbroek und Teuge und noch einige Ortschaften.

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- [en] Voorst

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[ru] Ворст

Ворст (нидерл. Voorst ) — община в Нидерландах в провинции Гелдерланд. Административный центр — Твелло.

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