A tree-lined residential boulevard of apartment buildings, photographed from a raised angle with a steel bridge visible at the far end. The printed caption gives the street's name as Boulevard of Queen Marija in Serbian, in both Cyrillic and Latin script. A purple rubber stamp reading Ujvidek has been added over the printed city name, apparently applied to the card after its original printing. The street name places the photograph in the interwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the later stamp suggests this individual card was still being sold or reused after the city's name officially changed under wartime occupation.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2378 × 1546 px
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