Egmond Abbey

Egmond Abbey or St. Adalbert's Abbey is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation between Egmond aan den Hoef and Bakkum in Egmond-Binnen within the municipality of Bergen inside the Dutch province of North Holland. Founded in 920 to 925 and destroyed inside the Reformation, it changed into re-based in 1935 as the existing Sint-Adelbertabdij, inside the Diocese of Haarlem. The Benedictine abbey became founded by means of Dirk I, Count of Holland, in about 920 to925.

It become a nunnery that, in step with local tradition, were there on the grounds that Saints Adalbert and Willibrord landed in 760. In about 950 work commenced on a stone church to update the wood one, as a gift from Dirk II, Count of Holland, and his wife Hildegard, to residence the relics of Saint Adalbert. The consecration of the new church apparently happened in or quickly after 975, and is recorded in the Egmond Gospels, offered to the abbey by Dirk. At the equal time a community of Benedictine clergymen from Ghent replaced the nuns, who under their abbess Erlinde, daughter of Count Dirk, have been transferred to a newly established nunnery, Bennebroek Abbey.