Regentenkamer Hofje van Nieuwkoop

The Hofje van Nieuwkoop is marked by a classicist rectangular layout of small houses surrounding a central garden, designed by the seventeenth-century architect Pieter Post. Founded in sixteen sixty-one, it remains the largest hofje in the Netherlands, originally built to provide shelter for needy women. Its origin stems from a deathbed decision by Johan de Bruijn van Buijtenwech, a wealthy resident of The Hague who unexpectedly redirected his fortune into this charity. This shift in his will left his disappointed heirs with nothing, sparking a controversy that echoed even in international correspondence at the time.