The building is titled in three languages, and the Hungarian and German both call it the Serbian bishop's palace where the Serbian says only the bishop's court, so the two official languages marked the confession that the Serbian did not need to name. A shopfront band opposite is lettered in Cyrillic, its first word legible and the rest not. The palace stands in red brick and terracotta across a wide dusty street, with a stone cross on a carved pedestal out in the roadway.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
On the card
НОВИ САД / Ujvidék / Владичански двор / Szerb püspöki-palota / Serb. bischöfliches Palais / […]
- Date
- 1911
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1440 × 930 px
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