by December 1908Dunavska Street
Danube Street, with a Crowd Outside the Branik Office
Dunavska ulica (Danube Street), a crowd gathered outside the offices of Branik, the Serbian newspaper, its name lettered large above a striped awning. A. Pajevic's shop stands beside it, its window and shelves visible through the glass. Captioned 'Ujvidek, Нови-Сад' and 'Duna-ulca, Дунавска улица' in Hungarian, Serbian and German. An upholsterer's shopfront at the far left carries the date 1859.
About this place
Dunavska street runs from Zmaj Jovina down to the Belgrade Quay on the Danube, and took shape in the first years of the 18th century as the road between the town centre and the river landing. Early city maps call it Auf den Brücken, the street on the bridges, because timber bridges carried it over the marshy ground on either side, and it was also known as Petrovaradinska after the crossing to Petrovaradin. From the late 18th century the name settled into Dunavska, with Duna utca in Hungarian and Donau-Gasse in German saying the same thing. The houses at numbers 1, 6, 7, 18 and 20 are protected monuments, and the street today carries the Museum of Vojvodina, the Historical Museum, the Officers' House and the entrance to the Danube Park.
On the card
Újvidék. Duna utca
- Date
- by December 1908
- Coordinates
- 45.25632, 19.85078
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2319 × 1506 px
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