1896–1918Liberty Square
Franz Joseph Square, advertising a Budapest company
A crowd fills Ferenc József tér around the votive column and its statues of saints, with the city hall and its clock tower behind them and a horse cart at the edge of the square. Rather than naming the square, the printed caption promotes the Hungarian Automat Factory and Leasing Company of Budapest, which issued the card. No tram or Serbian text appears anywhere on the card.
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.
On the card
Újvidék. Magyar Automatagyár és Kölcsönző Részvénytársaság Budapesten
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2344 × 1529 px
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