A printed card divided into four photographs around a central caption panel. Top left, a timber gateway of heavy squared posts and a lattice head carries lettering across its beam, with bathers and women in summer dresses gathered under it and a low pavilion behind. Top right, an open sided wooden pavilion with a shingled roof and a raised balustraded terrace stands among tall trees, people on its steps and children on the grass. Bottom left, a long shallow pool set in mown lawn with a diving frame at its far end, swimmers in the water and a line of bathers standing along the rope. Bottom right, a crowd packed on the sand beneath the trees, adults in bathing costumes and children at the water's edge, with striped changing huts behind.
About this place
Štrand is the city beach of Novi Sad, on the Danube near the Freedom Bridge, and its name comes straight from the German word Strand. It opened officially in 1911 on a sandbar called Poloj that had served to water livestock and then held Stengl's bathing place, with separate sections for men and women; an organised lifeguard and swimming instruction service followed in 1912. The beach runs 700 metres and covers about 14 hectares, half sand and half green, with more than 830 cabins and over 400 trees, and it draws more than a million visitors between May and September. During the raid of January 1942, Hungarian forces brought arrested Serbs and Jews to the entrance of Štrand and killed them at the water's edge, pushing the bodies under the Danube ice.
On the card
„ШТРАНД" купатило, НОВИ САД „STRAND" kupatilo, NOVI SAD
"Strand" bathing place, Novi Sad
- Date
- 1918–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 720 × 459 px
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