1896–1918Elizabeth Island
Novi Sad Seen from Elizabeth Island, a Rowboat Adrift
A rowboat with two figures drifts on the water in the foreground as the cathedral's spire and the town's rooftops rise beyond the reeds of Elizabeth Island. The Hungarian-only caption and the Ignac Urban, Ujvidek publisher imprint, matching other cards from this publisher in the batch, are consistent with the Austro-Hungarian era.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
Elizabeth Island is the small island in the lake of the Danube Park in Novi Sad. The park was laid out from 1895 on the Liman, a marshy arm of the Danube overgrown with reeds and willows. Only at its lowest point, 76 metres above sea level, did a pond remain; it was later walled in, which made the lake with its small island, named Erzsébet. A weeping willow was planted on the island in memory of the Austro-Hungarian empress who was killed in 1898. When the bed of the pond around it was renewed in 2020, the Hungarian-language Magyar Szó still called it the Erzsébet island. This archive's postcard, published by Ignác Urbán of Novi Sad, looks from the island across the water, where two men sit in a rowboat, to the roofs of the town and the spire of the Name of Mary Church.
On the card
Újvidék Az Erzsébet-szigetről
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2382 × 1546 px