The invention relates to a vacuum lifting device for plates, stones and other objects, the holding surface of which is uneven, using the vacuum principle employed in suction attachments, consisting of an essentially uniform, plane-parallel and rigid supporting plate, one side of which bears the supporting or holding means (11) and the other side, serving as a seal, is coated with a plastically deformable sealing compound. The feature of the invention is that the supporting plate (1) has spring-loaded inserts (7) running perpendicularly to the plate plane in the region of the vacuum chambers which project beyond the upper limit of the plastically deformable sealing compound (6).