1942Liberty Square
The square and the Name of Mary Church under storm clouds
The main square seen from beside the Town Hall, whose rusticated corner fills the left edge, toward the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church under a dark, clouded sky. A row of nineteenth-century houses, one crowned by a dome, runs across the square, a rounded saloon car is parked at the kerb with a man beside it, and tram rails curve across the empty roadway. The Holy Trinity column rises beside the church, where it stood until the late 1940s.
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
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2367 × 1546 px
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