An aerial view north east across the Danube from above the Liman shore. In the foreground a fenced sports ground stands alone on open grass: an oval running track with a second rectangular field beside it, a pavilion at one corner, a low stand along the near side and young poplars set in rows around the whole perimeter. Beyond the water the city runs along the far bank at the left, two bridges cross the river, the long low railway bridge on its many piers nearer the camera and the arched trusses of the road bridge behind it, and the barrack range of Petrovaradin Fortress stands on its rock at the right. Barges lie out on the open water. This is Đačko igralište, the school sports ground opened on 31 May 1936 on the raw ground of Mali Liman, whose poplar screen against the košava wind became the mark of the place.
About this place
A school sports ground of three hectares laid out on the raw ground of Mali Liman and opened on 31 May 1936. The initiative came from Mirko Balubdžić, director of the Novi Sad gymnasium, and the work was carried out by the First Boys' Real Gymnasium of King Alexander I together with the Home and School Community and the Hygiene Institute, with pupils giving voluntary labour. The engineer Milutin Tatić and the architect Milorad Radonić designed it on the model of a ground in Zagreb, and Franjo Horvat laid out its botanical planting. It had a kept grass field for mass gymnastic displays and for the throwing events, a circular running track of 333 metres that was flooded as a skating rink in winter, run ups for the jumps, stands for as many as five thousand, a keeper's house, changing rooms and an open air amphitheatre for lectures, with a rest and recovery building for pupils and courts for tennis, volleyball and basketball alongside. Poplars were planted around the perimeter as a screen against the košava wind and quickly became the mark of the place; they are visible in the archive's aerial view. Its equipment came from the German firm Berg and no other school ground in the country had the like, which is why the years from 1936 to 1941 are called its golden age. It is among the oldest sporting grounds in Novi Sad, it has never changed use, and FK Indeks plays there now.
- Date
- 1936–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.24376, 19.85325
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2758 × 1780 px
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