circa 1911–1912The Magyar Király Inn
The Hungarian King Inn
A long single-storey inn stands on a corner plot, its white front broken by a row of dark-shuttered windows under a shallow red roof. The board on the corner reads VENDÉGFOGADÓ above GASTHOF, naming the trade in Hungarian and then German for a mixed custom. A Hungarian tricolour flies from the ridge and two men have climbed up beside it for the photograph. A crowd fills the unmade street in front: two open tourers and a bicycle stand among them, a horse waits in the middle of the road, and women in local dress are ranked along the building. An inset oval portrait in the corner of the card shows the proprietor, Gyula Müller.
About this place
This is a roadside inn on the edge of Novi Sad, photographed for a postcard captioned in Hungarian, Ujvidék. Magyar Király szálló, the Hungarian King inn. It was a single storey house on a corner plot with a long low front and a shallow roof, standing on an unmade street; the board on the corner names the trade in two languages, vendégfogadó above and Gasthof below, so it served a mixed Hungarian and German custom. A Hungarian tricolour flies from the roof and an inset portrait in the corner of the card shows the proprietor, Gyula Müller. The Hungarian-only caption and the flag place the card before 1918, and the open tourer standing outside among the bicycles suggests the years just before the First World War. Nothing further about the house has been traced, and its exact site is not established.
On the card
Ujvidék. Magyar Király szálló. / VENDÉGFOGADÓ / GASTHOF / Müller Gyula tulajdonos.
Újvidék. The Hungarian King inn. / INN / INN / Gyula Müller, proprietor.
- Date
- circa 1911–1912
- Coordinates
- 45.25259, 19.83796
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 900 × 600 px
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