The viewer stands across the street from an ornate corner building whose domed turret has been torn open, exposing roof timbers, with cracked brickwork below and broken windowpanes. Two passersby with umbrellas pause on the pavement to look up at the damage on a wet day. The donor's caption places the building at the corner of Jevrejska and Vase Pelagica streets, identifying it as the tax office and customs house.
About this place
The tax and customs house was the office where the state collected its money in Novi Sad under Hungarian rule. The two postcards of it in this archive show a two storey corner palace in the eclectic manner, its ground floor rusticated and arcaded, a turret with a bulbous cupola set over the corner, and young trees along the pavement. Both cards name it twice over, Adóhivatal és vámház in Hungarian and Steueramt und Zollamt in German, and one of them names the town three ways at once, Ujvidék, Нови Сад and Neusatz, which is how the place presented itself to visitors before 1918. Neither card gives a date of building or an architect, and nothing further about the house has been traced.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25254, 19.83840
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Martin Djemil
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 2798 × 3682 px
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