by August 1910Iodine Spa
The City Artesian Baths, the Full Facade Across a Flowerbed
An open-topped motor charabanc stands at the entrance steps alongside a horse and cart, a circular flowerbed laid out before the bath building's onion-domed centre. The heading names it the Városi artézifürdő, the city artesian baths. Dated August 1910.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
On the card
Újvidék Városi artézi fürdő
- Date
- by August 1910
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2302 × 1549 px
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