A printed card of a broad open square seen along its length. In the left foreground the Holy Trinity column stands on its stepped base within a low railing, its shaft carrying carved cloud and figures and a gilt group at the summit, with a tall ornamental gas lantern on a fluted column beside it. Beyond the column a line of two and three storey houses runs down the left side, their ground floors given over to shops under awnings, and large lettering across one upper storey reads МАТИЦА СРПСКА. The square itself is open and lightly peopled, a few figures crossing the cobbles and a cart standing at the far side, and it narrows at the end to the front of the town hall with its tower. A handwritten message in ink runs across the sky.
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.
On the card
Ujvidék. — Fő tér.
10/X 1901
Ujvidek. Main square. 10 October 1901
- Date
- 1894–1901
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1397 × 875 px
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