Horst

Look up Horst or horst in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Horst may refer to:

Science

  • Horst (geology), a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben

People

  • Horst (given name)
  • Horst (surname)
  • ter Horst, Dutch surname
  • van der Horst, Dutch surname

Places

Settlements

Germany

  • Horst, Steinburg, a municipality in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein
  • Horst, Lauenburg, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein
  • Horst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a village and district in the municipality of Sundhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Horst, Gelsenkirchen [de], a district in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Horst, Seevetal [de], a town in the municipality of Seevetal, Lower Saxony

Netherlands

  • Horst aan de Maas, a municipality in the province of Limburg
    • Horst, Limburg, the municipal seat of Horst aan de Maas
  • Horst, Gelderland [nl], a hamlet in the municipality of Ermelo, Gelderland
  • Horst, North Brabant [nl], a village in the municipality of Gilze en Rijen, North Brabant

Poland

  • Niechorze, German name for a village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland

Buildings

  • Castle van Horst [nl], a castle in the Belgian municipality of Holsbeek, Flemish Brabant
  • Castle Ter Horst, Achterberg [nl], a former castle in the Dutch municipality of Achterberg, Utrecht
  • Huys ter Horst  [nl], a partially rebuild castle ruin in the Dutch municipality of Horst aan de Maas

Geographic features

  • Horst (Spessart), a hill in Hesse, Germany
  • Horst (Vogelsberg), a hill in Hesse, Germany

Sport

  • STV Horst-Emscher, a defunct German association football club

Fictional characters

  • Horst (Inheritance), a character in the novel Eragon
  • Horst Staley, a MacArthur midshipman in the Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle science fiction novel The Mote in God's Eye
  • Dr. Horst, a character in the 2002 film Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself played by Mads Mikkelsen
  • Horst, a character in the 2007 film Ratatouille played by Will Arnett
  • Horst Cabal, the main character's elder brother from Jonathan L. Howard's Johannes Cabal series
  • Horst Loeffler, the main character's almost ex-husband from the 2013 postmodern detective novel Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Topics referred to by the same term
Disambiguation icon
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Horst.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.