Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg

Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg
SuccessorVrijplaats Leiden
Formation1968
Dissolved2010
Coordinates52°09′31″N 4°29′50″E / 52.158653°N 4.497347°E / 52.158653; 4.497347
ServicesActivity centre, bar, bookshop, café, freeshop, printers, sports school
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20090415161121/http://koppenhinksteeg.nl/

Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg (Freespace on Koppenhinksteeg street) was a complex of buildings first squatted in 1968 in Leiden, the Netherlands. It took its name from the alley on which it was located and was run since the 1990s by the Vrijplaats Koppenhinksteeg Foundation. Various groups including Eurodusnie used the different spaces as a bar, café, a freeshop, a foundation to support undocumented migrants, an information centre, a library and a sports club. In 2010, the entire complex was evicted. From 2012 onwards a new space called the Vrijplaats Leiden (Freespace Leiden) was set up elsewhere.