The caption uses the Serbian form of the city name in both Cyrillic and Latin, with no Hungarian version, which places the card after 1918. It names the building as the bishop's palace, the only identification it gets. The trees along the front are full-grown and in leaf, screening most of the facade, so the avenue had been standing for many years by the time the photograph was taken.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
On the card
Novi Sad, Vladicin dvor
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1600 × 1029 px
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