A produce market fills the near side of the street, with baskets of goods set out on the pavement, a loaded farm wagon and women in aprons and headscarves tending their stalls. The street closes on a church tower in the distance. The heading is trilingual, Ujvidek, Neusatz, and Serbian Новисад beside Hauptstrasse, so Novi Sad's own name appears here in Cyrillic, and a handwritten date beside the title matches the card's May 1900 use.
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.
- Date
- by May 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2312 × 1526 px
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