Striped awnings shade a row of shops beneath the Elizabeth Hotel, including a fashion department store, as vendors with baskets and passersby cross the square. An ornate lamp post stands at the corner, with a church dome visible in the distance. The Hungarian and German Hotel Elisabeth caption, with no Cyrillic, is consistent with the Austro-Hungarian era.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
The Queen Mary was a single storey hotel built in the classicist manner, with a summer garden that the archive photographed in 1935. This archive's catalogue records that it went up in 1854 for its owner Johann Eigler and first traded under the name Elisabeth, and that it was renamed the Queen Mary Hotel on 9 May 1922, after Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia. That change of sign is the ordinary pattern in Novi Sad after 1918, when Habsburg names on streets, squares and businesses gave way to those of the new royal house. Nothing further about the building has been traced beyond the archive's own record.
On the card
Újvidék Erzsébet szálloda
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25447, 19.84507
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2368 × 1542 px
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