1895–1918Danube Park
The confectionery pavilion in the park
A timber pavilion with a steep shingled roof stands among mature trees in the Danube Park, its fretted gable carrying a finial and a board lettered in Hungarian for a confectionery. The open front is fitted as a serving counter where women in long white dresses and aprons wait, and a man in a dark suit and a pale hat stands among the cloth-covered tables and folding white chairs set out across the gravelled terrace. A slatted bench with curved iron ends stands in the foreground and a clipped hedge closes the view at the right. The card is hand-coloured, the greens laid on by hand over a monochrome print.
About this place
The city's central park was laid out in 1895 on a swampy former branch of the Danube known as the Liman, until then a reedbed of willows, mosquitoes and frogs. Its small lake keeps an island named Erzsébet in honour of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, assassinated in 1898. The fountain sculpture of a nymph, the Girl with the Horn of Plenty by Đorđe Jovanović, was installed in 1912, and later decades added monuments to the poets Đura Jakšić (1982) and Miroslav Antić (1992). Covering four hectares with some 760 trees, the park is protected as a Monument of Nature.
On the card
CUKRÁSZDA
Confectionery
- Date
- 1895–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25533, 19.85138
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1500 × 1000 px
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