An electric tram waits at a stop on Danube Street, in front of an ornate corner building with a balustraded balcony and awning-covered shopfronts. A policeman stands watch at the corner while pedestrians in early-1900s dress pass along the sidewalk. The card gives the street's name in Hungarian and German as Duna-utca, Donau-Gasse, with no Serbian on the card.
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
Traffic in Novi Sad / Saobraćaj u Novom Sadu
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25632, 19.85078
- Source
- Matica Srpska Library
- Credit
- Matica Srpska Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1628 × 996 px
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