1942Liberty Square
Liberty Square with the Plague Column and a Tram, Novi Sad, 1942
An electric tram swings across the main square past the Holy Trinity column, its destination board reading II. RAKOCZI FERENC UT, the wartime name of Jevrejska street. A uniformed man stands in the foreground and a white horse waits in the shafts of a carriage at the right. Behind them runs a long modernist block with a lettered monogram on its roofline. Its ground floor is let to shops, one signed SILESIA, below a cinema banner for Lovagias ügy, the 1937 comedy starring Gyula Kabos, and the building at the right is signed URI DIVAT ARUHAZ, a men's fashion house. The square is Trg slobode, called Ferenc József tér before 1918 and Országzászló tér during the occupation, and the source dates the photograph to 1942.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
On the card
R & H; MOL[?]Á[?]; LOVAGIAS UGY; KABOS GYULA; II. RAKOCZI FERENC UT
An interlaced R & H monogram on the roofline. Along the ground floor: a shop name of six letters beginning MOL, and a cinema front billing LOVAGIAS UGY (Affair of Honour, a Hungarian film of 1937) with its star KABOS GYULA (Gyula Kabos). The tram's destination board reads II. RAKOCZI FERENC UT, Ferenc Rakoczi II Street.
- Date
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Négyesi Pál
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 3886 × 2420 px
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