Electric tram number 30 rolls down Kossuth Lajos utca, its trolley pole bent up to the overhead wire beside a domed clock tower. Pedestrians fill the street around it, and an ornately gabled building rises on the right beyond a market stall. The caption is printed in Hungarian and German, Kossuth Lajos-utca and Kossuth Lajos Gasse, with no Serbian text.
About this place
The street running off Liberty Square, named for King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and carrying the name still. The archive's cards look along it toward the spire of the Name of Mary Church, with the tram in the roadway and shop awnings down the left side. Under the occupation of 1941 to 1944 the street carried Adolf Hitler’s name, and the archive’s wartime photograph of it is filed here under that period. Under socialist Yugoslavia the street carried the name Ulica narodnih heroja, which a separate street about 120 m south-west carries today, so a caption using that name has to be dated before it is placed. The pin is the OpenStreetMap line of the street itself.
On the card
Újvidék. Kossuth Lajos utca
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25417, 19.84420
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2301 × 1480 px
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