1896–1918Danube Park
Elizabeth Lake with the Town Beyond
A quiet view across Erzsébet tó, the lake at the edge of town, toward a cluster of houses and a tall church spire on the far bank. No people, vehicles, or boats appear in the frame. The card is captioned in Hungarian and German only, Ujvidék and Neusatz, with no Serbian text. The lake takes its name from Empress Elisabeth, a naming choice from the Austro-Hungarian period of the city.
About this place
The city's central park was laid out in 1895 on a swampy former branch of the Danube known as the Liman, until then a reedbed of willows, mosquitoes and frogs. Its small lake keeps an island named Erzsébet in honour of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, assassinated in 1898. The fountain sculpture of a nymph, the Girl with the Horn of Plenty by Đorđe Jovanović, was installed in 1912, and later decades added monuments to the poets Đura Jakšić (1982) and Miroslav Antić (1992). Covering four hectares with some 760 trees, the park is protected as a Monument of Nature.
On the card
Újvidék. Erzsébet-tó
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25533, 19.85138
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2309 × 1512 px
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