Nicknamed « l'Enragée » (the Raging One) for its effects, its iron-tasting water had to be drunk on site. Mentioned as early as 1559, in 1651 it received from the Count of Burgsdorff a marble niche under a dome supported by four red marble pillars. Peter the Great drank there on the advice of his doctor, and Joseph II is said to have danced a minuet there in 1781. The 1735 building burned down in 1893; in 1975, the city redeveloped the site in the spirit of the 18th century. A mass and the blessing of the forest take place there every year in May.

Water

Ferruginous, carbonated, strong taste

Origin

Massif de la fagne de Malchamps

Building

Niche from 1651; site redeveloped in 1975 (arch. François Bourotte)

Altitude

≈ 400 m