The bath house stands beyond a stretch of rough open ground that has not yet been laid out, and a round postmark is struck across a corner of the picture. The caption is Serbian in both scripts with no Hungarian, which places the card after 1918, and it calls the baths municipal, so the town rather than a private company was running them.
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
Varosko jodno kupatilo
- Date
- 1925
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2382 × 1546 px
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