1913.Liberty Square
Franz Joseph Square in Monochrome, a Stationary Tram, 1913
The savings bank's own name, Ujvideki Takarekpenztar, is legible across its frieze, in the square now called Trg slobode. A tram stands in the street before it, and at the foot of the Holy Trinity column to the right the gunsmith Burmann Sandor still trades, the same stall seen in the 1914 view of the same corner. Pedestrians and a handful of carts occupy the paved 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.
On the card
Újvidék; Ferenc József tér
- Date
- 1913.
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum – képeslapok
- Credit
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2345 × 1524 px
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