Municipality of Enschede: registering a death
You can register the death yourself. You must do this in the municipality where your loved one died.
Declaration by surviving dependants
Make an appointment with the municipality.
Make an appointment decease with funeral in the Netherlands
You can also call to make an appointment. Call +31 53 481 81 81.
Online registration by funeral directors
You can also ask the funeral home to register the death for you. Funeral homes who are located in the Netherlands can register deaths online.
- Declaration of death: free
- Copy of the death certificate: € 14,30
- As a surviving dependant, you receive the extract from the death certificate and the verlof tot begraven of cremeren (permission for burial or cremation) immediately.
- Funeral homes should receive the extract and any other documents on the same working day or, at the latest, the next working day.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Enschede
Last updated on 9 December 2022