Floodwater stands the full width of a broad street, still enough to mirror the houses along it. A horse draws a laden cart through the water at the centre, men pole a punt along the far side and a second boat lies against the houses. Along the left a line of men stands on a raised timber walkway built out over the water above heaped sandbags and debris. The buildings are of two storeys with arcaded ground floors and shuttered windows, and one of them carries a long painted fascia lettered for the newspaper Zastava and for the Serbian people's cooperative printing house. A bare tree and a gas lamp stand at the left, and a wall lamp projects from the house at the right.
About this place
Dunavska street runs from Zmaj Jovina down to the Belgrade Quay on the Danube, and took shape in the first years of the 18th century as the road between the town centre and the river landing. Early city maps call it Auf den Brücken, the street on the bridges, because timber bridges carried it over the marshy ground on either side, and it was also known as Petrovaradinska after the crossing to Petrovaradin. From the late 18th century the name settled into Dunavska, with Duna utca in Hungarian and Donau-Gasse in German saying the same thing. The houses at numbers 1, 6, 7, 18 and 20 are protected monuments, and the street today carries the Museum of Vojvodina, the Historical Museum, the Officers' House and the entrance to the Danube Park.
On the card
ЗАСТАВА / СРПСКА НАРОДНА ЗАДРУЖНА ШТАМПАРИЈА
- Date
- 1876
- Coordinates
- 45.25632, 19.85078
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2000 × 1479 px
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