A refreshment kiosk under a striped awning stands among the planted trees and folding stands are out on the sand, and the bathers wear the knitted one-piece costumes with shoulder straps and the short skirted bathing dresses of the 1920s. The caption pairs Cyrillic with Latin on both lines, with the town name run together as a single word in each and no Hungarian or German version alongside, so the card was printed after 1918.
About this place
Štrand is the city beach of Novi Sad, on the Danube near the Freedom Bridge, and its name comes straight from the German word Strand. It opened officially in 1911 on a sandbar called Poloj that had served to water livestock and then held Stengl's bathing place, with separate sections for men and women; an organised lifeguard and swimming instruction service followed in 1912. The beach runs 700 metres and covers about 14 hectares, half sand and half green, with more than 830 cabins and over 400 trees, and it draws more than a million visitors between May and September. During the raid of January 1942, Hungarian forces brought arrested Serbs and Jews to the entrance of Štrand and killed them at the water's edge, pushing the bodies under the Danube ice.
On the card
НОВИСАД. - NOVISAD. / ШТРАНД. - ŠTRAND.
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 800 × 519 px
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