The caption is Serbian in both scripts with no Hungarian, which places the card after 1918, and it calls the baths municipal, so the town was running them. The card is coloured, with a round bed of red flowers set in the lawn before the entrance, and the grounds are laid out and established where an earlier card of the same building in this archive still shows rough open ground.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
On the card
Varosko jodno kupatilo
- Date
- 1926
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1614 × 1020 px
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