The street is named in Hungarian and Serbian with no German, and the Hungarian keeps the older cz spelling, which places the card before 1918. Both names call it the furriers' street, so the trade that gave the street its name was still the one people knew it by. A tram stands out in the road with people gathered along both sides of it.
About this place
Ćurčijska ulica took its name from the ćurčije, the furriers who worked along it, one of several streets in old Novi Sad named for the trade carried on there. The craft guilds were a strong and well regarded body in the town by the end of the eighteenth century, when a magistrate's census of 1770 counted the tradesmen and their religion and the Serbian and Hungarian craftsmen kept separate associations. This archive's captions place the street running up to the Wheat Square, at whose far end the road to Temerin and Budapest began, which puts it on the line of the town's great bazaar. Which street now carries that ground is not settled here.
On the card
Szucs utcza / Curcinska ulica
- Date
- 1913
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 898 × 576 px