Voorst

Voorst
Municipality
De Vecht
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Gelderland
Coordinates: 52°14′N 6°7′E / 52.233°N 6.117°ECoordinates: 52°14′N 6°7′E / 52.233°N 6.117°E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Gelderland
Government[1]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Jos Penninx (PvdA)
Area[2]
• Total	126.47 km^2 (48.83 sq mi)
• Land	123.07 km^2 (47.52 sq mi)
• Water	3.40 km^2 (1.31 sq mi)
Elevation[3]	6 m (20 ft)
Population (May 2014)[4]
• Total	23,860
• Density	194/km^2 (500/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Voorstenaar
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postcode	7382–7397, 7439
Area code	055, 0571
Website	www.voorst.nl

Voorst, camping-farm de Adelaar

Voorst ( pronunciation ) 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

References

1. "Burgemeester Jos Penninx" [Mayor Jos Penninx] (in Dutch). Gemeente Voorst. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
2. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten" [Key figures for neighbourhoods]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
3. "Postcodetool for 7391KA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
4. "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 26 June 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.

External links

• Media related to Voorst, Gelderland at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website