A multiview card, its five vignettes framed by poppies and reeds: the parish church, the Hôtel Central, Franz Joseph Square with the Holy Trinity column, the cadet school at Kamenica, and the fortress at Petrovaradin. Every vignette is captioned twice, Hungarian and German, the pairing of a town that read both. The margins name the Dresden printer Edgar Schmidt and the local bookseller Ágoston Herger. The sender, Ilonka, filled the right half with a Hungarian message to a friend in Szeged and dated it by hand at Ujvidék in August 1898.
Published by Ágoston Herger · Printed by Edgar Schmidt, Dresden
About this place
The Roman Catholic parish church of the Name of Mary faces the Town Hall across Trg slobode and is the largest church in Novi Sad. It replaced an eighteenth century church on the same site that was set alight and lost its tower in the bombardment of 12 June 1849; the repairs left the townspeople dissatisfied, and in 1891 the city resolved to pull the old building down and start again. György Molnár drew the plans in 1892 and refused any fee, and the contractors Stefan Gusek and Karl Lerer finished the structure in November 1893 under his supervision, the gilded cross going up on the tower in October 1894. It is a three-aisled neo-Gothic basilica of yellow facing brick, 52 metres long and 25 wide, with a tower of 72 metres, stained glass from Pest workshops and a roof of Zsolnay tiles laid after a fire gutted it in 1904. Novi Sad calls it the cathedral, which it is not: the see of the diocese is at Subotica. In gratitude for the free design the parish set a bust of Molnár in a niche below the choir.
On the card
UJVIDÉK / RÓM. KATH. PLÉBÁNIA TEMPLOM — Röm. Kath. Pfarrkirche / KÖZPONTI SZÁLLODA — Hôtel Central / FERENCZ JÓZSEF TÉR — Franz-Josef-Platz / KAMENITZI HADAPRÓD ISKOLA — Kamenitzer Cadetten-Schule / PÉTERVÁRAD VÁR — Festung Peterwardein / Herger Ágoston könyvkereskedő kiadása, Ujvidéken. / Edgar Schmidt, Kunstverlagsanstalt Dresden
Ujvidék. Roman Catholic parish church. Central Hotel. Franz Joseph Square. The Kamenica cadet school. The fortress of Petrovaradin. Published by Ágoston Herger, bookseller, in Ujvidék. Edgar Schmidt, art publishing house, Dresden.
- Date
- August 1898
- Coordinates
- 45.25563, 19.84571
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2480 × 1546 px
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