The source is known since the Middle Ages for its beneficial virtues on fevers and sterility. Since the 18th century, it has been protected by a pavilion: a small sandstone building in the Vosges. A legend regards Petronilla as a real daughter of St. Peter. On her way to Mount St-Odile, she had to meet St. Maternus somewhere near a spring.
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