Follow
The Nieuwe Kerk is a Protestant church in the city of Delft in the Netherlands. The building is located on Delft Market Square (Markt), opposite to the City Hall
The New Church, formerly the church of St. Ursula (14th century), is the burial place of the princes of Orange. In 1584, William the Silent was entombed here in a mausoleum designed by Hendrick and Pieter de Keyser. Since then members of the House of Orange-Nassau have been entombed in the royal crypt. The latest are [[Princess Juliana van Oranje-Nassau Queen Juliana] and her husband Prince Bernhard in 2004. Hugo Grotius, born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the marketplace outside the church, is also buried here. The church tower, with the most recent recreation of the spire which was designed by Pierre Cuypers and completed in 1872, is the second highest in the Netherlands, after the Domtoren in Utrecht.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwe_Kerk_(Delft))
In 1586, Flemish scientist Simon Stevin used the church's tower to conduct an experiment on gravitational forces.
The Kerk appears in the golden Age painting by Carel Fabritius, A View of Delft - 1652
Graves
Eleven people are buried in the old vault:
- William the Silent (1584)
- Louise de Coligny (1621)
- Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1625)
- Elisabeth, daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1630)
- Isabella Charlotte, daughter of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1642)
- Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1647)
- Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau (1648)
- Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1675)
- Three unidentified bodies.
35 people are buried in the new vault:
- William II, Prince of Orange (1651)
- Eldest stillborn daughter of William IV, Prince of Orange (1736)
- William IV, Prince of Orange (1751)
- Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1759)
- George Willem Belgicus, son of Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1762)
- A stillborn child of Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau (1767)
- Eldest stillborn son of William V, Prince of Orange (1769)
- Willem Georg Frederik, son of William V, Prince of Orange (1896)
- Princess Pauline of Orange-Nassau (1806)
- William V, Prince of Orange (1806)
- Frederika Louise Wilhelmina, daughter of William V, Prince of Orange (1819)
- Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia (1822)
- Prince Ernest Casimir of the Netherlands (1860)
- Willem Frederik Nicolaas Karel, son of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1834)
- Wilhelmine of Prussia (1837)
- William I of the Netherlands (1844)
- Willem Frederik Nicolaas Albert, son of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1846)
- Prince Alexander of the Netherlands (1848)
- William II of the Netherlands (1849)
- Prince Maurice of the Netherlands (1850)
- Anna Pavlovna of Russia (1865)
- Princess Louise of Prussia (1870)
- Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1872)
- Sophie of Württemberg (1877)
- Prince Henry of the Netherlands (1879)
- William, Prince of Orange (1879)
- Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1881)
- Alexander, Prince of Orange (1884)
- William III of the Netherlands (1890)
- Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1934)
- Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands (1934)
- Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1962)
- Prince Claus of the Netherlands (2002)
- Juliana of the Netherlands (2004)
- Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (2004)
William III, Prince of Orange, is not buried in the royal crypt. He is buried in Westminster Abbey, due to his position as King of England at the time of his death.
In September 2021, archaeologists announced that the remains of around 200 people had been discovered during the expansion of the royal burial chamber at Nieuwe Kerk
This map of Delft by J.Blaeu from 1649 shows the Nieuwe Kerk in its centre, at the front of which is the main Market Square.