1934–1947Liberty Square
Over the square to the church and the Tanurdžić Palace
An elevated view across the main square under a heavy sky. The Name of Mary Church stands at the left with its openwork Gothic spire and clock stage, a small gabled building, the old pharmacy, tucked against its flank. The Holy Trinity column rises from the paving below and to the right of the church, with tram rails curving past it. Beyond, the street runs away between older two storey shopfronts, and the long white mass of the Tanurdžić Palace closes the middle distance on the right, its continuous ribbon windows and rounded corner marking it out from everything around it. The roofs of the old town spread to the horizon and the Danube shows as a pale band at the skyline.
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.
- Date
- 1934–1947
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1343 × 805 px
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