Voorst Knowpia

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

Population centres edit

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

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

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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^ "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.