A postcard of the boulevard's modernist corner, built and photographed while the street was still raw. A stepped tower with a round window and banded brickwork turns the corner; a five-storey block with continuous window bands stands opposite, and further flat-roofed blocks recede behind. Saplings staked in fresh kerbed beds, an empty carriageway and a single figure on the pavement date the scene to the years just after the buildings went up. The card is lettered in Cyrillic and Latin for Novi Sad and names the street Bulevar Kraljice Marije, the interwar name for what is now Bulevar Mihajla Pupina, which places it between the boulevard's construction and the end of the Kingdom.
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.
On the card
НОВИ САД – NOVI SAD / Булевар Краљице Марије – Bulevar Kraljice Marije
Novi Sad. Queen Maria Boulevard.
- Date
- 1930s
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1538 × 1006 px
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