The Place de la Gëlle Fra will be redeveloped. The exact plan that will be adopted by the municipality of Luxembourg remains to be decided. A concrete project is already under discussion.
The project foresees the complete disappearance of the car park. The square around the Gëlle Fra should become a regular meeting place with kiosks, benches and a new avenue of trees. With its entrance to the casemates, the Place de la Constitution will also have a lift to the valley.
About twenty trees will have to be felled for this development. To compensate for this, new trees will be planted. The view of the former fortress bastion over the valley and the other side of the Plateau Bourbon will remain unobstructed.
As the Minister responsible for Public Works François Bausch stated in response to a parliamentary question from his colleague François Benoy, the new Constitution Square should be a balanced space between the impressive and the discrete.
The “Gëlle Fra”, which is a memorial to the victims of the war by the Käerjeng artist Claus Cito, will celebrate its centenary next year. In 1940, the golden statue was brutally destroyed by Nazi troops and disappeared before it was finally returned to its base in 1985.
