The ward blocks are ranged behind railings under a washed blue sky, with a telegraph pole carrying wires past the front, and the card is hand-coloured. Its caption is in Hungarian and German with no Serbian, which places it before 1918, and both versions call the hospital a municipal one, so it was the town's own institution rather than a state or church foundation.
About this place
Novi Sad's public hospital was built in stages between 1907 and 1912 on what was then the western edge of town, along today's Hajduk Veljkova street in the Sajmište district. Its architect was György Kopeczek, a Hungarian who specialised in hospital buildings. It opened in 1909 as the Great City Hospital, with departments for surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, skin and venereal diseases and infectious diseases, and one of the tram lines that began running in 1911 came out to it. Hungarian and German captions on the postcards name it Újvidék város közkórháza and Allgemeines Krankenhaus; Serbian cards after 1918 call it Državna bolnica, the State Hospital, and the site has stayed in hospital use ever since as the Main Provincial Hospital and now the University Clinical Centre of Vojvodina.
On the card
Varosi kozkorhaz / Staedtisches Spital
- Date
- 1913
- Coordinates
- 45.25163, 19.82206
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1600 × 1034 px
Open on the full map ›