1927Liberty Square
A Cleared Building Plot Beside the Gothic Church, Novi Sad, 1927
A wide crossing beside the Gothic church, with a grass island newly laid out opposite where a block has been cleared away. The blank gable ends left standing behind it show where the demolition stopped.
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
- 1927
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1612 × 974 px
Open on the full map ›