1939Liberty Square
The Trinity column and the square under reconstruction
An elevated view across the main square toward the Town Hall and its tall spire, with the shopfronts and gabled blocks of the far side running away to the right. The carved shaft of the Holy Trinity column rises through the right of the frame, so close to the lens that its figures are soft, and the camera stands almost against it. Tram rails curve across the open paving. In the middle of the square, before the Town Hall, a large rectangle has been opened in the ground with a low block set at its centre, and stakes and a striped marker post stand about the lower left where the surface has been broken up. The square is being rebuilt: the column had been shifted some ten metres toward the Name of Mary Church to clear the ground, and the opened rectangle is the footing going in for the monument to Svetozar Miletić.
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
- 1939
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1280 × 720 px
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