A row of young trees lines the iron fence in front of the domed Court of Justice building, seen from a different angle to its trilingual companion card. No tram, car, or pedestrian crowds appear in the empty street. The caption is printed in Hungarian and German only, M. kir. törvényszék and K. k. Gerichtshof, Ujvidék.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
The court house stands at the Danube park end of Dunavska street and was raised in 1896 to plans by the Budapest architect Gyula Wagner. Under Hungarian rule it held the royal court of justice, and a trilingual postcard of 1915 labels it M. Kir. Törvényszék, Окружни суд and Justizpalais, giving the Hungarian, Serbian and German names in turn. It went on housing courts after 1918, when the city passed to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Vojvodina Museum, founded in 1947 and without adequate premises for decades, moved into the former courthouse in 1974 and occupies it still under the name Museum of Vojvodina.
On the card
Újvidék Magyar királyi törvényszék
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25647, 19.85145
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2368 × 1564 px
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