A hand-coloured card of the municipal artesian bath, its domed centre and shaped gables set back behind a low garden, with a long wing running off to the right and awnings over the terrace. An electric tram with its pole up to the overhead wire waits at the crossing in the foreground, and the rails curve away across the unmade roadway.
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
UJVIDÉK, Városi Ártézi Fürdő / Städt. artesisches Bad.
Ujvidék. Municipal artesian bath.
- Date
- before 1918
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1640 × 1051 px
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