A wide new boulevard runs east toward the Danube, its street trees still slight and a horse and cart standing in the roadway. The rounded corner block on the left carries ДОМ НОВОСАДСКЕ ТРГОВАЧКЕ ОМЛАДИНЕ cut across the band of its cornice, with a reclining figure on the roofline above it and shops under awnings along the ground floor. Beyond it a row of modernist blocks steps away down the street. The far side of the boulevard is still open ground crossed by a footpath, and the steel truss of the Prince Tomislav Bridge stands against the sky in the distance on the right. The corner building is Đorđe Tabaković's home for the Novi Sad commercial youth, and the figure on its roof is Mercury, the god of commerce. The empty ground opposite is the site where the Banovina was begun in August 1936.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
On the card
ДОМ НОВОСАДСКЕ ТРГОВАЧКЕ ОМЛАДИНЕ
HOME OF THE NOVI SAD MERCHANT YOUTH
- Date
- 1932–1936
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Library of Matica Srpska, postcard Ra I 986, COBISS.SR-ID 226351623
- Credit
- Library of Matica Srpska
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1333 × 720 px
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