by July 1927Liberty Square
Liberation Square, Cabs Queued Below the Church Spire, 1927
The main square under the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, named on the card in Cyrillic and in Latin as Trg Oslobodjenja, Liberation Square, the name it carried between 1918 and 1941. The neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church rises at the right with tram rails and an overhead wire running past its flank, and a rank of hooded fiacres waits along the kerb with no motor car among them. Pedestrians cross the open square in front of a row of ornate nineteenth-century facades. This copy is dated 3 July 1927.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
On the card
Novi Sad. Trg Oslobodjenja
- Date
- by July 1927
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2416 × 1546 px
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