A group of men in military overcoats and plain civilian coats stand talking on a rain-soaked street, a tram halted behind them and a no-parking sign at the curb. Across the square rise the twin spires and rose window of the Church of the Holy Name of Mary. The donor's caption places the scene on Kralja Aleksandra street facing Trg Slobode, the square once called Ferenc Jozsef ter and later Orszagzaszlo ter.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
- Date
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Zagyva Tiborné
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 4094 × 2623 px
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