1941–1945Iodine Spa
Novi Sad in Four Views: a Civic Building, the Palace and the Fortress
Four separate photographs of Ujvidek on one card. An ornate public building with a domed central tower fills the top left panel, and the curved modern Banovina Palace anchors a wide street at top right. Below, a rounded corner building lines a tree-planted boulevard, and a rooftop view looks across the Danube toward the Petrovaradin Fortress on its hill. The Banovina Palace, completed in 1939, sets the earliest possible date, and the printed title uses only the Hungarian form of the city's name.
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.
- Date
- 1941–1945
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2324 × 1470 px
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