The square is named in Hungarian for the emperor and the hotel signs itself in Hungarian, but the beer hall beneath it is lettered in Hungarian, Serbian and German all three, so the drink was sold in more languages than the address was written in. A coloured card of the hotel side of the square, with white-canopied market tents and horse carts drawn up before it.
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
Ujvidék / Ferencz József-tér / GRAND HOTEL MAYER / SÖRCSARNOK - PIVARA - BIERHALLE / KOCSI […]
- Date
- 1910s
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 600 × 392 px
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