A hand-tinted postcard captioned in Hungarian and German shows an electric tram running past the Bishop's Court, its trolley pole connected to the overhead wire above the square. A troop of uniformed boys, possibly scouts, gathers by the stone wayside cross in the foreground while striped traffic bollards mark the junction. The electric tram dates the card to 1911 or later, when the town's first tram line opened, and the Hungarian and German caption to before 1918.
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
Újvidék; Püspöki residencia; Bischöfliche Residenz
- Date
- 1911-1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2350 × 1521 px
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