The square is named in Hungarian and German with no Serbian, and the Hungarian keeps the older cz spelling, which places the card before 1918. A hand has inked a year across the picture, so the card dates itself. The print is toned in ochre throughout rather than in sepia or grey.
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
Ferencz Jozsef-ter / Franz Josefs-Platz / 1915
- Date
- 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 547 × 343 px
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