The printed caption is in Hungarian and German, which places the card before 1918, and a third line in French has been added underneath by a later hand. A motor bus and an open car stand on the unmade drive among the crowd waiting at the front, so the spa was already being reached by motor traffic.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
On the card
Ártézi fürdö / Artesisches Bad / Établissement de bains
- Date
- 1910
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1037 × 676 px
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