The wells in the Raeren hamlets were not just places where water could be obtained, but also important meeting places for the people's leisure and social life. 'Am Plei' features one of the few wells with a hand pump that are still preserved. In earlier times, the housewives met up here to do the washing, which was then laid out on the local meadow and bleached. But the well for drinking-water was also a popular meeting place for other reasons, at which, in the times before television and the Internet, the inhabitants would sit together in the evenings and talk about the news of the day.
