The caption is Hungarian alone, which places the card before 1918, and it names both the main street and the bishop's palace standing on it. The roadway is unpaved and carries only horse traffic, and a stone cross stands inside a low railing out in the middle of the road.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
On the card
Ujvidék, Főutca és püspöki palota
- Date
- 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 803 × 519 px
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