1941.Liberty Square
An Elevated View of the Square, a Modern Block Beside the Column
A crowd fills the square before a large flat-roofed modern building and a memorial column, shop signs reading ÚJ DIVAT ÁRUHÁZ, New Fashion Department Store, clearly legible among the storefronts. Tram tracks curve past the column's base. Dated only 1941.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
On the card
ÚJ DIVAT ÁRUHÁZ / NAGY GY[...]
New Fashion Department Store, and a second shop, Nagy Gy..., on the square.
- Date
- 1941.
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum – képeslapok
- Credit
- Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2002 × 1506 px
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