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Source of pain

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Location: Winkel, Altkirch, Alsace, France

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Willem VS

July 2, 2025

The village is known in Alsace because the Ill River, which joins the Rhine a few kilometers north of Strasbourg, has its source here.
The source of the Ill, located east of Winkel at a place designated in 1591 as Illentsprung, meaning origin of the Ill, in an orchard on the slopes of the Glaserberg. Its current powered the waterwheels of sawmills and mills.

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PinionRadlerJan

July 29, 2021

Small town at the source of the Ill.
More information: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_(Haut-Rhin) and de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ill_(Elsass)

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Peter

May 22, 2022

Looks like the source hasn't been found!?!

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🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓

July 2, 2025

This is a (often dry) fountain at a highway intersection in the village called Winkel, not the location of the source of the river Ill; that's 850 meters to the south at another highlight:
komoot.com/highlight/4448431
But the source is often not producing much visible water. So it's perhaps fitting that Komoot's automatic translation doesn't reliably avoid messing up place names. While that's confusing for users, we can try to focus on the humor: Unless the highlight author puts the title "Illentsprung" (German for "Source of the Ill river") in quotation marks, it is displayed to me in English as "Source of pain" ... 🤣 ;-)

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Source of pain

1. Fromagerie Antony – Lucelle Lake loop from Ferrette

2. Fromagerie Antony – Half-timbered house Ligsdorf loop from Ferrette

3. Old Pfetterhouse station – Saint-Géréon Church loop from Ferrette

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