Public hospital. A man stands astride his bicycle on the drive in front of the main block, with an advertising column at the right. The same photograph appears on a second card in this archive, printed in grey ink and cropped wider. The municipal public hospital. A grey printing of the same photograph as the sepia cyclist card in this archive, cropped wider so that the edge of the card shows all round.
About this place
Novi Sad's public hospital was built in stages between 1907 and 1912 on what was then the western edge of town, along today's Hajduk Veljkova street in the Sajmište district. Its architect was György Kopeczek, a Hungarian who specialised in hospital buildings and who had also designed the city theatre in 1907. It opened in 1909 as the Great City Hospital, with departments for surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, skin and venereal diseases and infectious diseases, and one of the tram lines that began running in 1911 came out to it. Hungarian and German captions on the postcards name it Újvidék város közkórháza and Allgemeines Krankenhaus; Serbian cards after 1918 call it Državna bolnica, the State Hospital, and the site has stayed in hospital use ever since as the Main Provincial Hospital and now the University Clinical Centre of Vojvodina.
- Date
- 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.25163, 19.82206
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1683 × 1090 px
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