Voorst (Dutch pronunciation:) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland.
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 small village on the IJssel opposite to Deventer; it has a small, old church and a hospital for the mentally disabled; 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.
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) an organist, composer and music theorist
- Anthony Winkler Prins (1817 in Voorst – 1908) a writer of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia
- Willem Anne Assueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1834 in Voorst – 1889) a baron and politician
- Jan Terlouw (born 1931 in Kamperveen – 2025) a politician, physicist and author
- Evert Jan Baerends (born 1945 in Voorst) a 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
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