An oblique aerial view across a district of low houses on the flat edge of the city. A straight unmade road runs to the horizon, crossing a second road at a wide junction near the centre, and the land on either side is divided into long narrow plots, each with a single house at its front and a yard and garden behind. A taller three-storey building stands at the crossing beside a long low range, with a walled yard and a rectangular pond opposite. Beyond the last houses unbroken fields run to the skyline, dotted with isolated farmsteads. Among the streets in view are Bulevar Jaše Tomića and Rumenačka, with the Detelinara market and the church of St John the Baptist. The colour was added to the black-and-white photograph in modern times.
About this place
Detelinara is a residential district in the western part of Novi Sad, named after the clover that once grew on it. In the 1920s the ground here was open land largely sown with clover, which people cut and sold to the nearby military garrison. Settled after the First World War, the district is split by Kornelija Stankovića street into Stara Detelinara to the south, built up in the 1920s and 1930s on small family plots, and Nova Detelinara to the north, filled with blocks of flats after the Second World War. Its growth followed the Majevica barracks and the neighbouring military aerodrome, which became the largest in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia; about 44,000 people live in the three local communities that cover the area today.
- Date
- 1953
- Coordinates
- 45.26158, 19.81301
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 2000 × 1443 px
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