Colour-tinted, the bilingual title reads Ferencz Jozsef ter, Franz Josefs Platz, for the square now called Trg slobode. The Holy Trinity column stands at left with its star finial catching the light, and the corner building at right carries the sign of the Elso Magyar insurance company above a confectioner's shop at street level. A woman in a dark dress crosses the foreground as a horse and cart wait near the column's base.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
On the card
Újvidék. Ferenc József-tér
- Date
- by May 1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2296 × 1476 px
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