Two photographs of the same building, both captioned Igazsagugyi palota, are printed side by side, with a handwritten date, 7 November 1900, between them and the publisher's imprint at the right edge. The message explains that the sender has received the recipient's card and is pleased to return the favour with a new view, signed Geiszler Robert, sporting regards, the same collector's signature seen elsewhere dated later the same month.
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. Igazságügyi palota
- Date
- by November 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25647, 19.85145
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2322 × 1495 px
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