The first known record about mofetta treatment for injuries is from the 16th Century, by Paracelsus.

The Oxford Dictionary of English lists "mofetta" as an archaic term for the modern word fumarole.

The village's main point of interest is the namesake Wallender Born ("Wavy Spring"), known in the local speech as Brubbel, a mofetta whose spouting water comes from an underlying cold-water geyser.

Mofetta (Italian from Latin mephitis, a pestilential exhalation), is a name applied to a volcanic discharge consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, often associated with other vapours, representing the final phase of volcanic activity.