1919–1941Town Hall
Liberation Square and the Town Hall, seen from above
The Town Hall's tall clock tower rises over Trg Oslobodjenja, where a tram runs along the far side of the square and an ox cart crosses in the foreground. Awninged shops line the street to the left. The Cyrillic and Latin caption naming the square Liberation Square places this firmly in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, after the square's Habsburg era name was dropped.
About this place
The Town Hall, still known in Novi Sad as the Magistrat, stands on Trg slobode opposite the Catholic church and has housed the city government for more than a century. The office dates from 1748, when the settlement then called the Petrovaradin Trench was raised to a free royal city, but for its first century and a half the magistracy rented one building after another around the town. Where the new house should stand was fought over: Svetozar Miletić and his supporters wanted it in the quarter where the Serbs lived, the Catholics wanted it on the main square facing their church, and the Catholics won. György Molnár, who took no fee for the work, revised his plans several times and looked partly to the town hall at Graz; Karl Lerer and Jožef Cocek built it between 1893 and 1895. It is a neo-Renaissance palace on a rectangular plan with a dome at each corner and a balconied tower over the centre, its front carrying allegorical figures of Greek goddesses by the Novi Sad sculptor Julije Anika and its ceremonial hall painted by Pavle Ružička. The tower once held the fire bell Matilda, which was melted down in the war.
On the card
Нови Сад. Novi Sad. Трг Ослобоћења. Trg. Oslobodjenja
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25477, 19.84460
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2402 × 1546 px
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