A hand-coloured card of Kossuth Lajos utca with an electric tram coming down the middle of the street. The Menrath palace stands at the right, one of the few Art Nouveau buildings in the city, built in 1908 to Lipót Baumhorn's design for the merchant Josef Menrath, with the family furniture business on its ground floor: a shaped gable with an oculus, two storeys of tall arched windows, carved festoons along the cornice and awnings out over the shops. The roadway is still unmade dirt although the rails are laid in it, and a market of canvas-covered carts fills the other side under a baroque bell tower with an onion dome and clock.
About this place
The Menrath palace is one of the few Art Nouveau buildings in Novi Sad, put up in 1908 to a design by Lipót Baumhorn, the Budapest architect who also built the city's synagogue. It was raised for the merchant Josef Menrath and has kept his name since. Serbian surveys of Secession architecture list it alongside the Tomin palace of 1909, also by Baumhorn, and the Adamović palace of 1911 as the principal works of that manner in the city, which produced far fewer of them than Subotica did.
On the card
Ujvidék / Kossuth Lajos-utca / Kossuth Lajos Gasse
- Date
- circa 1912
- Coordinates
- 45.25393, 19.84362
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1548 × 1016 px
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