The two-storey historicist school building stands on the street corner, with round-headed ground-floor windows, richly framed upper-storey windows and a small central balcony, and people standing and walking outside. This was the Royal Hungarian Catholic Grammar School of Ujvidék in its original central premises at Kossuth Lajos utca 43, on the corner of Örmény utca. The Historical Archives of the City of Novi Sad records the institution as founded in 1873, opening on 4 October that year with four classes in a building the City Magistrate put up from the municipal education fund, and by 1877 it had grown to eight classes. A new purpose-built Hungarian Catholic grammar school went up at today's Futoška 17 in 1912, and advertisements from 1914 onward call Kossuth Lajos utca 43 the old grammar-school building. The building no longer survives.
About this place
The house at Kossuth Lajos utca 43, on the corner of Örmény utca, Armenian Street, was the earlier home of the Royal Hungarian Catholic grammar school, near the Armenian church. After the Hungarian school law of 1868 the town's Catholics campaigned for a gymnasium; the crown granted it in January 1873, and it opened on 4 October 1873 with four classes. The town magistrate put up its school building in 1876 from the municipal education fund, and by 1877 it had eight classes, 13 teachers and 181 pupils. A new building for it was begun at Futoška 17 in 1912, and advertisements from 1914 call the corner house the old grammar school. It also housed a court, and when it was pulled down, as the boulevard was driven through the old town under the plan of 1950, it held the Vojvodina Museum. The Bazar department store, designed in 1972 by Milan Mihelič, stands on its site. This archive's postcards show its long front, with the Armenian church tower beyond.
On the card
Ujvidék / M kir. kath. főgymnazium / Kön. Ung. Kath. Obergymnasium / Мађ. краљ. кат. вел. гимназија.
Ujvidék. Royal Hungarian Catholic Upper Grammar School, named three times over in Hungarian, German and Serbian.
- Date
- before 1914
- Coordinates
- 45.25375, 19.84455
- Source
- National Széchényi Library
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2301 × 1512 px
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