In Germany, dismantled sculpture naked Pope

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The authorities of the German city of Konstanz on Lake Constance dismantled installed at the city railway station statue of a naked Pope by the sculptor Peter Lenk (Peter Lenk), said the Swiss NZZ-Online.
The figure of a nude pontiff height of two meters and weighing 700 pounds is a fragment of another famous sculpture Lenka "Empire", which in 1993 was installed at the entrance to the city's harbor of Constanta.

Made of concrete "Empire" 9 meters high and weighing 18 tons is a figure of medieval whore with their hands. The hands she perched two naked men: one in the imperial crown, the other in the papal tiara.

The first male figure depicts the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire Sigismund, second - Pope Martin V. All the sculpture "The Empire" refers to a story by Honore de Balzac's "The Beauty of Empires", which tells how a courtesan by the name of the Empire, taking advantage of the passions and weaknesses of the Catholic clergy, was able to influence decisions XVI Ecumenical Council of Constance.

Commenting on the decision of the tourist bureau of Constanta, on the territory of which was equipped with a separate figure of a naked Pope, the sculptor Peter Lenk explained to him by the Provincial local officials. Moreover, in his opinion, the Bureau could exert pressure from the conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union and the Catholic Church. They are, according to the sculptor, fear that because of the statue of a naked current pontiff Pope Benedict XVI may cancel his visit to Konstanz, scheduled for 2014, when the handle turns Constance sobora. /lenta.ru