by August 1898Town Hall
Greetings from Novi Sad: the Town Hall Among Four Views, 1898
A composite Gruss aus Neusatz card with four small views set around a central greeting panel decorated with swallows. The Town Hall's clock tower is recognisable at upper left, with a horse carriage waiting before it; the other three vignettes show further civic buildings and a walled churchyard, each captioned. The handwritten message notes that only four weeks remain until some awaited date, and separately sends greetings from a visit to Neusatz made for official and business matters, with regards to a family called Baumgartner.
Published by Bruder M. Popovits
About this place
The Town Hall, still known in Novi Sad as the Magistrat, stands on Trg slobode opposite the Catholic church and has housed the city government for more than a century. The office dates from 1748, when the settlement then called the Petrovaradin Trench was raised to a free royal city, but for its first century and a half the magistracy rented one building after another around the town. Where the new house should stand was fought over: Svetozar Miletić and his supporters wanted it in the quarter where the Serbs lived, the Catholics wanted it on the main square facing their church, and the Catholics won. György Molnár, who took no fee for the work, revised his plans several times and looked partly to the town hall at Graz; Karl Lerer and Jožef Cocek built it between 1893 and 1895. It is a neo-Renaissance palace on a rectangular plan with a dome at each corner and a balconied tower over the centre, its front carrying allegorical figures of Greek goddesses by the Novi Sad sculptor Julije Anika and its ceremonial hall painted by Pavle Ružička. The tower once held the fire bell Matilda, which was melted down in the war.
On the card
GRUSS AUS NEUSATZ. / Verlag Bruder M. Popovits, Neusatz. / Az idő mulik, már csak 4 hete van!
Greetings from Neusatz. Published by the Popovits brothers, Neusatz. Handwritten: time is passing, only 4 weeks to go!
- Date
- by August 1898
- Coordinates
- 45.25477, 19.84460
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2386 × 1546 px
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