1900Liberty Square
The Cathedral of the Name of Mary and the Eugen Stein shop corner
A Gothic Revival cathedral with a tall buttressed tower and a rose window dominates the square, a column topped by a statue standing in front of its entrance. On the right, a corner building carries a sign reading Eugen Stein above its ground-floor windows. The cobbled square is thick with horse-drawn carriages and carts and dozens of pedestrians in long skirts and hats, with market stalls and awnings set up at the left edge of the frame.
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
The central square
- Date
- 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1440 × 1072 px
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