Voorst

Population centres

• Appen
• Bussloo
• De Kar
• De Vecht
• De Wijk
• Gietelo
• Klarenbeek
• Klein-Amsterdam
• Nijbroek
• Posterenk
• Spekhoek
• Steenenkamer, actually an outskirt of Deventer
• Terwolde
• Teuge
• 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.

Notable people

• Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1861/1866
• Johannes Gijsbertus Bastiaans a Dutch organist, composer and music theorist
• Anthony Winkler Prins a Dutch writer of the Winkler Prins encyclopedia.
• Willem Anne Assueer Jacob Schimmelpenninck van der Oye a Dutch baron and politician
• Jan Terlouw a retired Dutch politician, physicist and author
• Evert Jan Baerends a Dutch theoretical chemist and academic

  Sport

• Jan-Dirk Nijkamp a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics
• Jurgen Streppel a retired football player with 373 club caps
• Robert Horstink a volleyball player, competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics

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