One of two amateur photographs of the same 1939 gathering, taken closer in so the church's rose window and buttresses fill the upper frame. A dense crowd stands around the roofline of a bus at centre, with a bicycle propped at the left edge and a stone column visible cropped at the right, likely the Holy Trinity column at the edge of the square.
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
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library - Shvoy Kálmán Collection
- Credit
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1109 × 1495 px
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