The caption is Hungarian alone, which places the card before 1918, and the tram runs on a trolley pole, so it cannot be earlier than 1911. The destination board and the firm name on the flank of the corner block are both Hungarian, while a long fascia in Serbian Cyrillic capitals runs above the shopfronts below them, so the official and the commercial lettering on one building sit in two languages at once. Only two words of that fascia come out legibly and its opening is cut off by the edge of the card. A wayside crucifix on a base stands before the palace and an arc lamp hangs from a span wire across the street.
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
Ujvidék / Kossuth Lajos-utca a püspöki palotával / PÁLYAUDVAR / FISCHER TESTVÉREK / […] ТИНОГ ИЗВОРА […] НОВЕМБЕРА
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1024 × 649 px
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