Horst may refer to:
Science
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Horst (geology), a raised fault block bounded by normal faults or graben
People
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Horst (given name)
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Horst (surname) Horst is a surname and people with the surname include:
* Alexander Horst (born 1982), Austrian beach volleyball player
* César Horst (born 1989), Argentine football player
* David Horst (born 1985), American soccer player
* Deena Horst (born 194 ...
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ter Horst, Dutch surname
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van der Horst, Dutch surname
Places
Settlements
Germany
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Horst, Steinburg
Horst is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 14 km southeast of Itzehoe, and 7 km northwest of Elmshorn.
Horst is the seat of the ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") ...
, a municipality in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein
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Horst, Lauenburg, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein
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Horst, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a village and district in the municipality of Sundhagen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
* , a district in the city of
Gelsenkirchen
Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...
, North Rhine-Westphalia
* , a town in the municipality of
Seevetal, Lower Saxony
Netherlands
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Horst aan de Maas, a municipality in the province of Limburg
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Horst, Limburg, the municipal seat of Horst aan de Maas
* , a hamlet in the municipality of
Ermelo, Gelderland
* , a village in the municipality of
Gilze en Rijen, North Brabant
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Schothorst, , and , districts in the city and municipality of
Amersfoort, Utrecht
Poland
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Niechorze, German name for a village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland
Buildings
* , a castle in the Belgian municipality of
Holsbeek, Flemish Brabant
* , a former castle in the Dutch municipality of
Achterberg
Achterberg is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is part of the municipality of Rhenen and it lies about 5 km west of Wageningen.
The village was first mentioned in 1417 as Achterbergh, and means "(settlement) behind the hill". ...
, Utrecht
* , a partially rebuild castle ruin in the Dutch municipality of
Horst aan de Maas
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Adlerhorst
The Adlerhorst ("Eagle's Nest") was a World War II bunker complex in Germany, located near Langenhain-Ziegenberg, the later settlement of Wiesental and Kransberg within the districts of Wetteraukreis and Hochtaunuskreis in the state of Hesse ...
, a former bunker complex in the German state of Hesse
Geographic features
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Horst (Spessart), a hill in Hesse, Germany
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Horst (Vogelsberg), a hill in Hesse, Germany
Sport
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STV Horst-Emscher
STV Horst-Emscher was a German association football club from the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The club's greatest success has been to qualify for the 1950 German football championship, where it was knocked out by SpVgg Fürt ...
, a defunct German association football club
Fictional characters
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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
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