Egmond Monastery

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The Benedictine - Abbey Egmond ( Sint Adelbertsabdij ) is in the field of Egmond . It is the oldest abbey in the Netherlands .

View of the [historical] Abbey of Egmond-Binnen (oil painting by Claes Dirksz van der Heck - 1638)
Today's Egmond Benedictine Abbey
Ruins of the old Egmond Abbey around 1725
Page from the Egmond Gospels (10th century)
Today's abbey church

history

The monastery was in the first half of the 10th century by the Dutch Count Dietrich (Dirk) I. founded. Shortly afterwards it was destroyed by the Vikings , but rebuilt almost immediately.

In the 10th to 12th centuries, the Egmond monastery was the burial place of the Counts of Holland ( Dietrich I , Dietrich II , Arnulf von Gent , Dietrich III , Florens I , Dietrich V and Florens II ). The monastery received many privileges in the centuries that followed, and the abbots gained great secular influence. The noble family of the Counts of Egmond (or Egmont) emerged from the monastery bailiwick , from which Count Lamoral later achieved notoriety.

In the Eighty Years War the abbey was destroyed by the Geusen under Sonoy in 1573 and then dissolved. The valuables were sold to finance the Leiden University and were partially preserved. Many of the abbey's art treasures, including a chronicle of Holland from the Middle Ages , are in the Catharijneconvent museum in the city of Utrecht . The important Egmond Gospels that were written in the monastery ended up in the Royal Library in The Hague .

Reconstruction began in 1934. In 1935 the monastery was finished to the point that it could be re-established. In 1947 it became independent as a conventual priory; In 1950 it was elevated to an abbey. The abbey still exists today.

Monastery workshops and exhibitions

The abbey is now attractive to tourists thanks to its candle foundry and a small pottery , which can be visited and whose products can be bought there. There are also changing art exhibitions.

Model of the old Egmond Abbey

literature

  • Bernard JM de Bont: De "regale" abdij van Egmond. CL van Langenhuysen, Amsterdam 1905.
  • Jacques Huijben: De abdij van Egmond en hair historical beteekenis. De Raad der vrienden van Egmond, Egmond-Binnen 1940.
  • Karin Lelyveld (Red.): Benedictijns leven in Egmond. Het Sint-Liobaklooster en de Sint-Adelbertabdij. Luyten, Amstelveen 1985, ISBN 90-6416-076-7 .
  • Erich Heinz Pieter Cordfunke (Ed.): De Abdij van Egmond. Archeologie en duizend jaar geschiedenis. Walburg Pers, Zutphen 2010, ISBN 978-90-5730-666-2 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Catalogus Monasteriorum O. S. B. Monachorum . Editio XIX. S. Anselmo, Rome 2000, p. 88.
  2. ^ J. de Puniet de Parry: Toespraak bij de eerste steenlegging van de priorij te Egmond, September 15, 1934 . In: Egmondiana , Vol. 5 (1941), pp. 136-137.

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 42 "  N , 4 ° 39 ′ 37"  E