Nieuwe Kerk

Sluiten
Address
Spui 175
City
Den Haag
Country
Netherlands
Latitude
52.07634700
Longitude
4.31603300

 

According to a floor map (1772) of the Nieuwe Kerk, Spinoza was buried in a vault at the church entrance (no. 162). His grave was close to that of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt (1625–1672). The municipal burial registers of The Hague report about the vault: ‘Rented vault 162 … on the same [day] is also buried Benedictus Spinoza, [who] lived opposite the almshouses of the Holy Spirit, 12 guilders’. The vault was cleared during the 18th century. A monument just outside the Nieuwe Kerk commemorates the philosopher: ‘The earth here covers the bones of Benedict de Spinoza, formerly buried in the New Church’.

Nieuwe Kerck

Nieuwe kerk at the Spui, The Hague, burial place of Spinoza (Cornelis Elandts, De Nieuwe Kerck, 1663–1670 (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-1938-1025)

Nieuwe kerk at the Spui, The Hague, burial place of Spinoza (Cornelis Elandts, De Nieuwe Kerck, 1663–1670, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-OB-50.214).

Spinoza's grave

Map of the interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at the Spui. Spinoza’s remains were laid to rest in the B section, no. 162, close to the grave of Johan de Witt (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-1882-A-5984)

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