Old Church Tower at Nuenen (or The Peasants' Churchyard) are names given to several oil paintings and drawings created in 1884 and 1885 by Vincent van Gogh.

The spire was demolished in 1792 and the church tower was in the process of being torn down and sold for scrap as Van Gogh made the paintings.

[4] Vincent's brother was buried in Zundert Groot,[5] but his death may have been an influencing factor in his interest in churches and graveyards.

The spire was demolished before Van Gogh's early watercolors of the tower could be developed into oil paintings.

An now this ruin tells me how a creed and religion have moldered away, even though they were so well established -- how, nevertheless, the life & death of the peasants is and remains the same: always sprouting and withering like the grass and the flowers that are growing in this graveyard.