Voorst

For other uses, see Voorst (disambiguation).

Voorst (Dutch pronunciation: [voːrst] ^ⓘ) 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 2021)[4]
• Total	24,790
• Density	202/km2 (520/sq mi)
Demonym	Voorstenaar
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	7382–7397, 7439
Area code	055, 0571
Website	www.voorst.nl

Voorst, camping-farm de Adelaar

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

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

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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