Ten years later, the manager of the Juliusz Osterwa Theatre, Leon Haegenbarth, proposed to commemorate Adam Mickiewicz, whose centenary of death was just being celebrated.

The project was prepared by the Poznań-based sculptor Józef Gosławski, author of the Fryderyk Chopin monument in Żelazowa Wola, among others.

Members of the Social Construction Committee decided that the pen should be removed and the left hand should point to the book.

Once again, the monument became famous when, due to the Sikorski Street reconstruction project, the City Council had to give its consent to move it by 12 meters.

During the stormy debates, the issue that Mickiewicz's sculpture has one hand 20 cm longer and should be shortened on that occasion came back.

The monument remained present in tourist guides, but it is difficult to speak of its special distinction as an attraction for visitors.

It was only the need to move and the discussion of this project by the local authorities and in the regional media that animated public interest in the monument.