by July 1941Habag Palace
The Habag Palace, Pedestrians Along the Pavement, 1941
The building is in a plain, modernist style very different from the ornate nineteenth-century architecture pictured elsewhere, with a vertical sign reading Agraria partway up the corner tower. Shopfronts with large display windows run along the ground floor, and a scattered line of pedestrians walks the pavement past them. The card's July 1941 date falls three months after the city's occupation that April.
About this place
The Habag palace stands at the start of Vase Stajića street, on the corner of what is now Trg galerija, and was completed in 1931 as the central building of the German community in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It held the offices of the Kulturbund and of the German agricultural credit cooperative Agraria, and a well known café called Habag occupied the ground floor. Sources disagree about who designed it: Serbian accounts credit the Vršac architect Viljem Rihard, while the German heritage project Danube Places names the architect Oskar Pakvor and the builder Philipp Schmidt, so the attribution should be treated as unsettled. Construction is usually dated from 1929 to 1931.
On the card
Újvidék "Habag" palota
- Date
- by July 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25244, 19.84528
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2346 × 1483 px
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