La Maigrauge Abbey

The Abbey Magerau (French: Abbaye de la Maigrauge ) is a company founded in 1255, Cistercian convent in Fribourg in the Swiss canton of Fribourg.

The monastery is located to the Sarine river and on the border of the German - to French-speaking Switzerland. The community is bilingual and in addition to a host bakery and an open for everyone guesthouse offers a organic garden and a monastery shop where a product derived from medicinal herbs elixir (so-called Green Water ) is sold.

The monastery belongs since 1901 to Mehrerauer Congregation. 2011, Marianne Zurich OCist successor of Gertrude Schaller as abbess.