The long classical front of the court house runs down the right of the view with domed corner pavilions above it, and a row of young trees stands along the pavement before it. A tram comes down the street with a second behind it, an ornate lamp standard rises at the right and figures walk the roadway. The card is hand-coloured and captioned in Hungarian and German together, which places it before 1918, while the trams place it at 1911 or later.
About this place
The court house stands at the Danube park end of Dunavska street and was raised in 1896 to plans by the Budapest architect Gyula Wagner. Under Hungarian rule it held the royal court of justice, and a trilingual postcard of 1915 labels it M. Kir. Törvényszék, Окружни суд and Justizpalais, giving the Hungarian, Serbian and German names in turn. It went on housing courts after 1918, when the city passed to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Vojvodina Museum, founded in 1947 and without adequate premises for decades, moved into the former courthouse in 1974 and occupies it still under the name Museum of Vojvodina.
On the card
UJVIDÉK. Kir. törvényszéki palota. - Königl. Gerichts-Gebäude.
Ujvidék. The Royal Court House.
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25647, 19.85145
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1467 × 939 px
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