La Maigrauge Abbey
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La Maigrauge Abbey or Magerau Abbey (French: Abbaye de la Maigrauge; German: Abtei Magerau) is a Cistercian nunnery located in Fribourg, Switzerland, and founded in 1255.
The abbey is sited on the Saane and is on the border between French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland. The community is bilingual. Besides a bakery for communion wafers and a guesthouse, the nuns also maintain a biogarden and a nunnery shop, which sells the abbey's cordial, made of herbs, known as Grünes Wasser or eau vert ("green water").
[edit] External links
- Abbey website (German) (French)
- The community on their 750th anniversary (French)
- kath.ch: article on Magerau (German)
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