Young trees in protective cages line the walkway before the domed Law Court building, a handful of men in dark coats and hats passing a small child dressed in white. The caption names the building in three scripts, Hungarian, Serbian Cyrillic and German, the German line specifying it as the Kgl. ung. Gerichtshof, the Royal Hungarian Court of Justice.
About this place
The court house stands at the Danube park end of Dunavska street and was raised in 1896 to plans by the Budapest architect Gyula Wagner. Under Hungarian rule it held the royal court of justice, and a trilingual postcard of 1915 labels it M. Kir. Törvényszék, Окружни суд and Justizpalais, giving the Hungarian, Serbian and German names in turn. It went on housing courts after 1918, when the city passed to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Vojvodina Museum, founded in 1947 and without adequate premises for decades, moved into the former courthouse in 1974 and occupies it still under the name Museum of Vojvodina.
On the card
Újvidék Törvényszéki palota
- Date
- by November 1907
- Coordinates
- 45.25647, 19.85145
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2374 × 1546 px
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