A raised view down the length of a wide cobbled street given over to a market. Down the right hand side run rank upon rank of low trestle stalls under the trees, their frames hung thickly with goods and their keepers standing among them, with a line of horse drawn carts drawn up behind. On the left a row of two storey houses with awnings over their shopfronts runs away into the distance, more stalls and canopies set against them. In the middle distance the Epiphany Cross stands on its tall pedestal with an ornamental railing about it, and beyond it the street narrows between trees. A large ornamental gas lamp on a fluted column rises in the left foreground, and around its base stand carts with their shafts down, harnessed horses, and men in hats and shirtsleeves. A woman in a long skirt and headscarf crosses the cobbles at the centre.
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Miletićeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.
- Date
- 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1485 × 654 px
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