by October 1935Town Hall
Liberation Square and the Town Hall, 9 October 1935
A tram and pedestrians in autumn coats cross the square in the foreground, below the same Town Hall clock tower and Holy Trinity column seen together elsewhere under their Hungarian-era names Fötér and Ferencz József tér. A real postage stamp and a 10 October 1935 postmark are affixed at top right. The heading, Нови Сад, Трг Ослобођења са Градском Кућом, Novi Sad, Liberation Square with the Town Hall, marks the square's progression from Hungarian to interwar Yugoslav naming, ahead of its later name Trg slobode.
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
Novi Sad; Trg Oslobodjenje sa Gradskom Kucom
- Date
- by October 1935
- Coordinates
- 45.25477, 19.84460
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2368 × 1546 px
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