Fifteen years since we heard them ringing in the middle of the buildings of the city of Cronenbourg. “There was a problem with the bell tower, whose metal structure had deteriorated over time,” explains Antoine Raullet, director of the company Campanes’Est, based in Ostwald, in charge of the renovation. With the beating of the bells, the bell tower of this modern concrete church, dating from 1968, has gradually cracked over the years. “A moving bell generates up to 3.5 times its original weight,” he describes. Enough to imagine the impact on the structure of these three ladies who respectively weigh a whopping 466, 267 and…
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