1939Liberty Square
The Main Square Toward the Cathedral, Novi Sad, 1939
An amateur photograph rather than a commercial postcard, with deckled edges typical of a personal snapshot print. The camera looks down the street toward the church spire, with a crowd of people gathered around a bus at the kerb on the right and tram rails laid in the cobbled street in the foreground. The buildings to the right carry shopfront awnings and a rounded corner turret further down the block.
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
- 1939
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library - Shvoy Kálmán Collection
- Credit
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1126 × 1546 px
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