Horst (Limburg)

Horst is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas. Although the municipality is named after the village, Horst itself is not called "aan de Maas", because it does not lie on the River Meuse (in Dutch called Maas).

Towns, and the number of inhabitants on 01.01.2007

*America, 2.134
*Broekhuizen, 786
*Broekhuizenvorst, 1.103
*Griendtsveen, 548
*Grubbenvorst, 4.790
*Hegelsom, 1.907
*Horst, 12.037
*Lottum, 2.031
*Melderslo, 1.969
*Meterik, 1.552
*Total, 28.857

Horst was a separate municipality until 2001, when it merged with Broekhuizen and Grubbenvorst to form the new municipality Horst aan de Maas. The municipality has since then the towns Grubbenvorst, Lottum, Broekhuizen and Broekhuizenvorst on it. [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/li/horst.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]