A postcard view of the newly built Winkle Palace on Kossuth Lajos Street, today's Kralja Aleksandra, with shopfronts occupying the ground floor and apartments above. Men and boys gather along the pavement beneath the long Secession façade, while the name of merchant Zsigmond Kassowitz appears prominently above one of the premises. The building was commissioned by businessman István Winkle and designed by Budapest architect Károly Kovács in 1906–1907. It was already occupied by autumn 1907. Contemporary sources describe the property as the Winkle Palace or Winkle-udvar and record a busy commercial courtyard behind the street frontage, containing businesses including a beer hall and printing works.
About this place
The street running off Liberty Square, named for King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and carrying the name still. The archive's cards look along it toward the spire of the Name of Mary Church, with the tram in the roadway and shop awnings down the left side. Under the occupation of 1941 to 1944 the street carried Adolf Hitler’s name, and the archive’s wartime photograph of it is filed here under that period. Under socialist Yugoslavia the street carried the name Ulica narodnih heroja, which a separate street about 120 m south-west carries today, so a caption using that name has to be dated before it is placed. The pin is the OpenStreetMap line of the street itself.
On the card
Újvidék / Winkle-udvar / KASSOWITZ ZSIGMOND / BAZAR
Újvidék / Winkle Court / Zsigmond Kassowitz / Bazaar
- Date
- 1907–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25400, 19.84433
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 992 × 630 px
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