Adam Mickiewicz Monument (Warsaw)
The Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Warsaw (Polish: Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza ) was erected in the Kraków suburb in Warsaw on December 24, 1898, for the hundredth birthday of the greatest Polish romantic poet - Adam Mickiewicz , based on a design by Cyprian Godebski . Józef Pius Dziekoński and Władysław Marconi designed the surrounding the monument park today after US President Herbert C. Hoover - Hoover Square is called.
It was donated by Michał Radziwiłł and the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz .
In 1942 the memorial was destroyed by the German Wehrmacht and brought to Hamburg. After the Second World War, its remains, head and torso, were brought back to Poland. In 1950 the monument was reconstructed by Jan Szczepkowski and Józef Trenarowski .
On January 30, 1968 there was a student demonstration in front of the memorial against the cancellation of the performance of the play Totenfeier (Polish: Dziady ) by Adam Mickiewicz, which was staged in the Warsaw National Theater . The rally was violently suppressed by the militia .
Web links
- Lidia M. Nowicka: Dzieje pomnika Adama Mickiewicza. Histmag.org
- Przemysław Miller: Pomnik Adama Mickiewicza. ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 37 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 53 ″ E