The parade ground in front is bare mud and the trees along it have only just been planted. The barracks is named for King Aleksandar in a caption set twice, Касарна Краља Александра in Cyrillic and Kasarna Kralja Aleksandra in Latin, which places the card in the Kingdom after 1918. It is the Honvéd barracks in Futoška street, which carried King Alexander's name between the wars.
About this place
The barracks of the Honvéd, the Hungarian territorial army, built in 1894 and 1895 in Futoška street by the Novi Sad contractor Imre Kicveger. It was one of two barracks complexes the city put up in the 1890s on a single loan of 430,000 forints, having decided that renting private houses to quarter troops was costing more than building would. The names changed with the politics: Archduke Joseph under Austria-Hungary, King Alexander I in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito afterwards, and Arčibald Rajs today. A building of 850 square metres was added behind it in 1947 for a military school, to a design by Đorđe Tabaković.
It is a separate complex from the infantry barracks of 1895 that carried the name of King Peter I, which stood on the other side of the town and has its own entry here. The Honvéd was Hungary's territorial force and the Imperial and Royal infantry the common army of the monarchy.
On the card
НОВИ САД КАСАРНА КРАЉА АЛЕКСАНДРА / NOVI SAD KASARNA KRALJA ALEKSANDRA
- Date
- 1921–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25008, 19.83124
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2397 × 1546 px
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