Voorst

For other uses, see Voorst (disambiguation).

Voorst
—  Municipality  —
Flag Coat of arms
Coordinates: 52°14′N 6°5′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Area(2006)
• Total	126.52 km2 (48.85 sq mi)
• Land	123.11 km2 (47.53 sq mi)
• Water	3.41 km2 (1.32 sq mi)
Population (1 January, 2007)
• Total	23,530
• Density	191/km2 (490/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Voorst 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.

External links

• Official website