Francfort (Hesse, Allemagne) – Install\u00e9e au c\u0153ur de la ville au bord du Main, sur la Willy-Brandt Platz, l\u2019installation lumineuse repr\u00e9sentant un euro entour\u00e9 de douze \u00e9toiles \u00ab sera pr\u00e9serv\u00e9e \u00bb gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 l’engagement conjoint de la ville de Francfort, de la Banque centrale europ\u00e9enne et de la branche francfortoise de l’association proeurop\u00e9enne \u00ab Europa Union \u00bb (EUF), a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Eileen O’Sullivan, adjointe au maire, lors d’une conf\u00e9rence de presse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cette solution intervient apr\u00e8s \u00ab des ann\u00e9es de discussions et un avenir devenu incertain \u00bb, en raison de co\u00fbts d’entretien \u00e9lev\u00e9s et du retrait de sponsors, a-t-elle ajout\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haute de 14 m\u00e8tres et pesant 50 tonnes, la sculpture con\u00e7ue par l’artiste allemand Ottmar H\u00f6rl, avait \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9rig\u00e9e en 2001 devant l’ancien si\u00e8ge de la BCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Avec le temps, c’est devenu l’objet \u00ab le plus photographi\u00e9 de la ville \u00bb, assure Mme O’Sullivan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Un budget annuel de 50.000 euros a \u00e9t\u00e9 arr\u00eat\u00e9, financ\u00e9 pour 30.000 euros par la ville et compl\u00e9t\u00e9 par la BCE, fond\u00e9e en 1998. Son d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement en 2014 dans une tour flambant neuf \u00e0 l’est de la ville avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 failli causer la disparition de l\u2019\u0153uvre. (8 d\u00e9cembre 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
L’imposante sculpture bleue et jaune repr\u00e9sentant le symbole de l’euro, \u00e9l\u00e9ment majeur de curiosit\u00e9 \u00e0 Francfort, la ville abritant la Banque centrale europ\u00e9enne, a \u00e9t\u00e9 sauv\u00e9e d’une possible disparition, selon un accord d\u00e9voil\u00e9 lundi par la municipalit\u00e9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1844772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[2183,9321,15210,10503,22643],"class_list":["post-1866614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-in-brief","tag-allemagne-2","tag-art","tag-finances-2","tag-monnaie","tag-sculpture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeannewsroom.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}