The card's own imprint credits Verlag J. Singer, Hoffotograf, Ujvidek along the right margin. The Holy Trinity column stands at the centre of the square, today's Trg slobode, with the shop of Schmidt Vilmos in the low building to its left and a long arcaded row of houses filling the far side. Market carts and pedestrians occupy the open ground; no tram rails are visible in the paving, consistent with a date before the tram-era cards of the same square in this run.
Published by Josef Singer
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
Újvidék Ferenc József tér
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2610 × 1716 px
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