Voorst

Municipality in Gelderland, Netherlands

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Location in Gelderland

Coordinates: 52°14′N 6°7′E / 52.233°N 6.117°E / 52.233; 6.117CountryNetherlandsProvinceGelderlandGovernment

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• BodyMunicipal council • MayorJos Penninx (PvdA)Area

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• Total126.47 km² (48.83 sq mi) • Land122.97 km² (47.48 sq mi) • Water3.50 km² (1.35 sq mi)Elevation

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6 m (20 ft)Population

(January 2021)^[4]

• Total24,790 • Density202/km² (520/sq mi)DemonymVoorstenaarTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postcode

7382–7397, 7439

Area code055, 0571Websitewww.voorst.nl

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.

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Voorst, June 2015

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

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

^ "Burgemeester Jos Penninx" [Mayor Jos Penninx] (in Dutch). Gemeente Voorst. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
^ "Postcodetool for 7391KA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
^ "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

Populated places in the municipality of Voorst

Towns

Villages

Hamlets

v t e Municipalities of Gelderland
Aalten Apeldoorn Arnhem Barneveld Berg en Dal Berkelland Beuningen Bronckhorst Brummen Buren Culemborg Doesburg Doetinchem Druten Duiven Ede Elburg Epe Ermelo Harderwijk Hattem Heerde Heumen Lingewaard Lochem Maasdriel Montferland Neder-Betuwe Nijkerk Nijmegen Nunspeet Oldebroek Oost Gelre Oude IJsselstreek Overbetuwe Putten Renkum Rheden Rozendaal Scherpenzeel Tiel Voorst Wageningen West Betuwe West Maas en Waal Westervoort Wijchen Winterswijk Zaltbommel Zevenaar Zutphen
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