Horst Explained

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
• , a district in the city of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia
• , 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
• , a hamlet in the municipality of Ermelo, Gelderland
• , 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

• , a castle in the Belgian municipality of Holsbeek, Flemish Brabant
• , a former castle in the Dutch municipality of Achterberg, Utrecht
• , 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