1896–1918Bishop's Palace
The Bishop's Court, Novi Sad, Strollers by the Iron Fence
A hand-tinted postcard shows the Serbian Orthodox Bishop's Court on a cobbled square, its turreted facade decorated with an ornamental gable. Men in bowler hats and women in long skirts and wide-brimmed hats stand and stroll in front of the iron fence, with an ornate lamppost at the right edge of the frame. The caption above the scene is printed in Hungarian, Serbian Cyrillic and German, and a message has been written by hand directly across the sky, a layout typical of cards whose reverse was reserved for the address alone.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
On the card
Újvidék Püspöki palota
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2342 × 1505 px
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