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Nieuwe Kerk (Delft)

{{Short description|Protestant church in Delft, Netherlands}}

{{Infobox Church

| building_name = Nieuwe Kerk

| name = Nieuwe Kerk

| image = Delft, de Nieuwe Kerk foto1 RM11872 foto4 2016-03-13 12.38.jpg|

| caption = Nieuwe Kerk, Delft

| coordinates = {{coord|52|0|44.28|N|4|21|39.24|E}}

| location = Delft, Netherlands

| denomination = Protestant Church in the Netherlands

| previous denomination = Roman Catholic

| geo = {{coord|52.0123|4.3609|region:NL_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| architecture_type = Church tower

| architecture_style = Gothic

| groundbreaking = 1396

| year_completed = 1496

| height_max = {{convert|108.75|m|ft|2|abbr=on}}

| designated = Dutch rijksmonument #11872

}}

The Nieuwe Kerk ({{IPA|nl|ˈniu.ə ˈkɛr(ə)k}}; {{langx|en|New Church}}) 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 (Dutch: Stadhuis). 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 members to have been entombed are Queen Juliana and her husband Prince Bernhard in 2004. The private royal family crypt is not open to the public. The church tower, with the most recent recreation of the spire, was designed by Pierre Cuypers and completed in 1872.{{cite web |url=https://oudeennieuwekerkdelft.nl/new-church/tower/history |title=Tower New Church |access-date=27 December 2019 |work=Oude En Nieuwe Herk Delft}} It is the second highest in the Netherlands, after the Domtoren in Utrecht.

History

File:A family beside the Tomb of Prince William i in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, by Dirck van Delen.jpg, 1645]]

The New Church, formerly the church of St. Ursula (14th century), is the burial place of the princes of Orange.{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Delft |volume=7 |page=954}} The church is remarkable for its fine tower and chime of bells, containing the splendid allegorical monument of William the Silent. It was crafted by Hendrik de Keyser and his son Pieter about the year 1621, and the tomb of Hugo Grotius, born in Delft in 1583, whose statue, erected in 1886, stands in the marketplace outside the church. Grotius' wife, Maria van Reigersberch, who had helped him escape in 1621 from his imprisonment at Loevestein Castle hidden in a book chest,{{cite book |last=Murray |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/ahandbookfortra20firgoog |title=A hand-book for travellers on the continent: being a guide through Holland, Belgium, Prussia |publisher=BIBLIOBAZAAR |year=1838 |isbn=1-117-07017-4 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ahandbookfortra20firgoog/page/n126 73]}}{{cite book |last=Davies |first=Charles Maurice |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k9kBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA539 |title=History of Holland, from the beginning of the tenth to the end of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 |publisher=General Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-151-01164-0 |pages=539 |authorlink=Charles Maurice Davies}} is also buried there with her husband.{{Cite book |last= Knappert (1912). Blok, P.J. and P.C. Molhuysen (ed.) |title="Reigersberch, Maria van, in: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, Vol. 2". Huyghens ING (in Dutch). |year= |pages=1184}} The tower of the church was built 1396-1496 by Jacob van der Borch, who also built the Dom in Utrecht during the years 1444-1475.Rijksmonument report The monument for Hugo de Groot was made in 1781. The mechanical clock has 18 bells, made by Francois Hemony from 1659. In the church tower there is a bell from 1662 by Francois Hemony with a diameter of 104 centimeters. In the tower there are also bells no longer in use, including 13 from 1659 by Francois Hemony, 3 from 1678 by Pieter Hemony, 3 from 1750 from Joris de Mery, and 1 from Gillett and Johnston from 1929.

The Kerk appears in the golden Age painting by Carel Fabritius, A View of Delft.Walter Liedtke, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, p. 250. In 1586, Flemish scientist Simon Stevin used the church's tower to conduct an experiment on gravitational forces.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YicuDwAAQBAJ&q=delft+tower+experiment&pg=PA26|title=Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy|last=Schilling|first=Govert|date=2017-07-31|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674971660|language=en}}

Gallery

{{Gallery

|title= Views of Delft and the Nieuwe Kerk

|mode = packed

|File:FabritiusViewOfDelft.jpg|A View of Delft, a 1652 painting by Carel Fabritius.

|File:Delft - Church in the evening sun.jpg|The church in the evening sun

|File:Delft, straatzicht met nieuwe Kerk op achtergrond vanaf Koepoortbrug foto4 2009-05-22 11.08.JPG|Nieuwe Kerk from Koepoortbrug

|File:Delft, de toren van de Nieuwe Kerk RM11872 vanaf de Oude Langendijk foto4 2016-03-13 12.49.jpg|Nieuwe Kerk in street view

}}

Recent discoveries

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.{{Cite web|date=2021-09-08|title=Royal catacombs yield bones of 200 rich Delft residents|url=https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/09/royal-catacombs-yield-bones-of-200-rich-delft-residents/|access-date=2021-09-13|website=DutchNews.nl|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|title=Tweehonderd lichamen gevonden in Delftse Nieuwe Kerk: 'Nieuw hoofdstuk in geschiedenis'|url=https://www.omroepwest.nl/nieuws/4448560/tweehonderd-lichamen-gevonden-in-delftse-nieuwe-kerk-nieuw-hoofdstuk-in-geschiedenis|access-date=2021-09-13|website=www.omroepwest.nl|language=nl}}{{Cite web|title=Catacombs at Delft’s Nieuwe Kerk Excavated - Archaeology Magazine|url=https://www.archaeology.org/news/9983-210909-netherlands-delft-catacombs|access-date=2021-09-13|website=www.archaeology.org}}

People buried in the royal crypt

File:Royal grave tomb and the grave of Willem van Oranje (4260834422) (2).jpg and access to the royal crypt]]

Image:Grafkelders in Delft plattegrond.jpg

File:Overzicht Nieuwe Kerk gezien vanaf de toren van de Oude Kerk. - Delft - 20422113 - RCE.jpg]]

File:Delft, centrum met de Nieuwe Kerk RM11872 foto4 2014-03-09 11.21.jpg

Eleven people are buried in the old vault:{{Cite web|url=https://oudeennieuwekerkdelft.nl/en/new-church/royal-family/royal-crypts|title=Royal crypts}}The years between parentheses are the years in which the persons are interred in the vault.

35 people are buried in the new vault:

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.

See also

{{Rijksmonument|11872}}

References

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External links

{{Commons and category|Nieuwe Kerk (Delft)|Nieuwe Kerk (Delft)}}

  • {{official website|http://www.oudeennieuwekerkdelft.nl/en}} {{in lang|en}}

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