Source du Tonnelet

In 1559 the source was first mentioned in the list of springs at Spa drawn up by Gilbert Limborch, but was then first known as the Frayneuse source (French: Source de la Frayneuse ).

In the early 17th century, people began to exploit the source. The water was then collected in a vessel , a barrel (in French: tonnelet ), which is why we now know the source by this name. A small building was also built to protect the source.

In 1930, the Marie-Henriette well, with a daily outflow of 375 m³, could no longer meet the needs of the thermal baths of Spa and the 65 m³ of the Wellington source was added. The spring water from both sources has since been transported together to the baths via a pipeline . Due to a growing need for spring water, that volume also turned out to be too limited a few years later and the spring water of Tonneletbron was also added. Because the three sources come from the same aquifer , the sources have the same quality of spring water.

The source complex consists of a restaurant with a separate building in front of the source , both of which are built in the same style. The source building is a free-standing roundabout made of metal and glass. In the middle of this comes the spring water from a cast iron "pump". The adjacent restaurant is on an elevation (relative to the source building) and consists of another three roundabouts around a central building section with an extension at the rear.

willem vandenameele