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Work is currently being undertaken in St Michael's Church's tower to restore its clockwork.
Until now, there has been a clock mechanism in the St Michael's Church tower that has not been working for 70 years. It has now been taken apart and will be completely restored. The Comité Alstad, which is in charge of all things cultural in Luxembourg City, had proposed restoring the whole mechanism and then making the clockwork accessible to the public.
The work has started this week. The man responsible for the restoration is clock-maker Georges Jungbut, whose workshop is based in the road next to the church.
The clockwork was built in Alsace and mounted in the church in 1903. Currently, the parts of the clockwork are being taken apart and moved to Jungblut's workshop. He will then clean the mechanism and restore it. Following its restoration, the clockwork will not return to the tower. It will instead be placed in the church on the right hand side of the entrance.
The whole project will cost approximately €25,000. Comité Alstad requested funding from the national cultural funding organisation (Fonds Culturel national) and have also been supported by the city's governance and the national government's architectural heritage body (Sites et Monuments) in this endeavour to restore some of Luxembourg's heritage.
