by October 1901Danube Park
A lake in the park, with a rowing boat
A rustic boathouse and open-sided pavilion stand on the far shore of a small lake, with two people out in a rowing boat and its reflection doubled in the still water. The heading reads Parkrészlet, park detail, Ujvidék, with the publisher's imprint at bottom, Herger Ágoston levelező-lap kiadóhivatalából, Ujvidék. The card is signed Csókol számtalanszor, countless kisses, and dated October 1901.
Published by Ágoston Herger
About this place
The city's central park was laid out in 1895 on a swampy former branch of the Danube known as the Liman, until then a reedbed of willows, mosquitoes and frogs. Its small lake keeps an island named Erzsébet in honour of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, assassinated in 1898. The fountain sculpture of a nymph, the Girl with the Horn of Plenty by Đorđe Jovanović, was installed in 1912, and later decades added monuments to the poets Đura Jakšić (1982) and Miroslav Antić (1992). Covering four hectares with some 760 trees, the park is protected as a Monument of Nature.
On the card
Újvidék Parkrészlet
- Date
- by October 1901
- Coordinates
- 45.25533, 19.85138
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2415 × 1546 px
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