by April 1941Liberty Square
Buses Parked Near the Church and Column, 1941
Two motor buses and a horse carriage share the intersection before the church's rose window facade, tram tracks curving past a column in the middle distance. A handwritten caption below reads Ujvidék, utca részlet, a street view. The scene is entirely ordinary, with no sign of military presence. Dated 20 April 1941, little more than a week after the Hungarian occupation began.
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.
- Date
- by April 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2337 × 1499 px
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