Warnsveld is a town in the eastern Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

, about 2 km east of Zutphen.

Warnsveld's Martinuskerk (Church of Saint Martin

Martin of Tours

Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...

) was probably built as early as the 9th or 10th century. The first mention of the name Warnsveld in writing is from the year 1121.

Warnsveld was a separate municipality until 2005, when it was merged with Zutphen. The former municipality had a population of about 9,000, and covered both the village of Warnsveld and nearby Warken.

People born in Warnsveld

• Gert Holstege
  Gert Holstege
  Gert Holstege is a neuroscientist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.Holstege studied medicines at the Erasmus University Rotterdam from 1966 to 1971. He was neuroscientist at that University from 1971 to 1987, after which he worked for 4 years for NASA in Mountain View, California...
  
   (born 1948), neuroscientist
• Ellen ten Damme
  Ellen ten Damme
  Ellen ten Damme is a Dutch actress and singer.She was born in Warnsveld, and was raised in the village Roden....
  
   (born 1967), singer & actor
• Anne-Wil Lucas-Smeerdijk (born 1975), politician

External links

• Map of the former municipality in 1868