1919–1941Habag Palace
The Habag palace, a modern office building
A streamlined multi-story building with ribbon windows and a tall vertical fin marked with a large V rises over the street corner, its ground floor let to the Agraria company. Awnings shade the shopfronts below, and a dramatic bank of clouds fills the sky above the flat roofline. The caption reads only Ujvidék, Habag palota.
About this place
The Habag palace stands at the start of Vase Stajića street, on the corner of what is now Trg galerija, and was completed in 1931 as the central building of the German community in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It held the offices of the Kulturbund and of the German agricultural credit cooperative Agraria, and a well known café called Habag occupied the ground floor. Sources disagree about who designed it: Serbian accounts credit the Vršac architect Viljem Rihard, while the German heritage project Danube Places names the architect Oskar Pakvor and the builder Philipp Schmidt, so the attribution should be treated as unsettled. Construction is usually dated from 1929 to 1931.
On the card
Újvidék Habag palota
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25244, 19.84528
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2282 × 1475 px
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