A hand tinted card of a long two storey barrack range seen along its front. Two four wheel electric tram cars stand on the track in the open ground before it, one nearer the camera with its trolley pole raised to the overhead wire, the other beyond, each with a clerestory roof, an open platform at either end and a destination board above the windscreen. Lattice traction masts carry the span wires across the space. Small figures stand between the cars and at the barrack wall, and to the right a horse stands in the shafts of a long cart drawn up beside the building. The barracks themselves run away to the right in a regular range of round headed windows, with a projecting centre carrying a panel and a small balcony. Young trees in a line stand in front of it. The foreground is bare open ground and the sky is washed in pale blue and cream.
About this place
The barracks of the Honvéd, the Hungarian territorial army, built in 1894 and 1895 in Futoška street by the Novi Sad contractor Imre Kicveger. It was one of two barracks complexes the city put up in the 1890s on a single loan of 430,000 forints, having decided that renting private houses to quarter troops was costing more than building would. The names changed with the politics: Archduke Joseph under Austria-Hungary, King Alexander I in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito afterwards, and Arčibald Rajs today. A building of 850 square metres was added behind it in 1947 for a military school, to a design by Đorđe Tabaković.
It is a separate complex from the infantry barracks of 1895 that carried the name of King Peter I, which stood on the other side of the town and has its own entry here. The Honvéd was Hungary's territorial force and the Imperial and Royal infantry the common army of the monarchy.
On the card
Ujvidék
József főherceg laktanya
Ujvidek. The Archduke Joseph barracks.
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25008, 19.83124
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1117 × 707 px
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