An elevated view from the Town Hall tower, looking along Kossuth Lajos utca, today Zmaj Jovina, with Franz Joseph Square in the foreground. The Holy Trinity Column stands on the square below, seen from almost directly above: the octagonal stepped base with its garland swags and corner statues, then the shaft running away from the camera to the cross at its apex. Awnings are out along both sides of the street, the corner building at the left is lettered RECÉNYI ISTVÁN and SCHATTELES NÁNDOR with a clock hung at the corner, and WAGNER TESTVÉREK is painted across a roof at the right. Beyond the rooftops lie the flood plain and the Danube.
Photographed by Mór Erdélyi's firm
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Miletićeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.
On the card
RECÉNYI ISTVÁN / SCHATTELES NÁNDOR / WAGNER TESTVÉREK / KLAUSZ SAMU
- Date
- 1904
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Magyar Földrajzi Múzeum / Erdélyi Mór cége
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 3516 × 4253 px
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