1914 or 1915Bishop's Palace
Before the Bishop's Palace in Neusatz, by Eduard Frankl
A page from a German illustrated weekly carrying two war photographs, the lower one showing Austro-Hungarian soldiers gathered in front of the Bishop's Palace in Neusatz, with its arcaded facade and the cross of the cathedral yard at the left. The column of text between them describes Syrmia for a German reader: Neusatz as the seat of the Serbian bishop of Bacs, its storming by imperial troops under Jelacic in the revolutionary year 1849, and Peterwardein as the Hungarian Gibraltar where Prince Eugene beat the Turks in 1716.
Photographed by Eduard Frankl
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
Seite 2022. / Nummer 50. / Oesterreichisch-ungarische Soldaten in den Straßen von Ruma. / Vor dem Bischofspalast in Neusatz.
Page 2022. / Number 50. / Austro-Hungarian soldiers in the streets of Ruma. / In front of the Bishop's Palace in Neusatz.
- Date
- 1914 or 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Credit
- Eduard Frankl
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 868 × 1200 px
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