For the residents of the Neudorf district in Strasbourg, it was unthinkable to sit idly by. The town hall had installed a 3 meter high tree on the market square at the beginning of December for the holiday season. Yes, but there you have it, the tree was left completely bare, or almost, barely adorned with a tiny garland of lights at its top. A resident, shocked to see him left in his simplest device, launched an appeal on Facebook. “We said to ourselves that if everyone put in even just one little ball, this tree would look great!” »recounts Gaël Sturtz afterwards on France Bleu. The neighbors responded. On Sunday, December 15, they were delighted with the result: the Christmas tree which now sits, dapper and colorful, is the pride of the entire neighborhood.
In the region where the tradition of the Christmas tree was born (in 1492, according to the historian Georges Bischoff), we don't joke with the conifer. If the one in Neudorf is unanimous, the same is not true for the “official” tree of Strasbourg, Place Kléber. World Book Capital this year, the city has chosen books as its decoration theme. The 31 meter high fir tree, 70 years old and cut from a forest in the Vosges, was therefore dressed with white sheets of paper… looking a little too much like toilet paper for the taste of some passers-by.
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