The building's domed corner pavilions and arched ground-floor windows are shown from a street-corner angle with a lamp post and railings in the foreground. The heading, Magy. kir. Törvényház, Königl. Ung. Gerichtshof, the Royal Hungarian Court House, appears beside a handwritten New Year's Eve date, 31 December 1900. The card is signed Tisztelettel, Geiszler Róbert, the same collector's signature recurring across several other Ujvidék view-cards dated between November 1900 and October 1901.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
The court house stands at the Danube park end of Dunavska street and was raised in 1896 to plans by the Budapest architect Gyula Wagner. Under Hungarian rule it held the royal court of justice, and a trilingual postcard of 1915 labels it M. Kir. Törvényszék, Окружни суд and Justizpalais, giving the Hungarian, Serbian and German names in turn. It went on housing courts after 1918, when the city passed to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Vojvodina Museum, founded in 1947 and without adequate premises for decades, moved into the former courthouse in 1974 and occupies it still under the name Museum of Vojvodina.
On the card
Újvidék. Magy. Kir. Törvényház
- Date
- by December 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25647, 19.85145
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2329 × 1508 px
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