A painted sign fills the whole gable end above the trees, advertising the brothers' cognac, slivovitz and marc distillery in German, while the caption naming the town is Hungarian, so the town's official naming and the firm's own advertising sat in different languages on one card. The same firm's German trade notice survives separately. A handwritten message runs along the bottom of the picture.
About this place
The Wheat Square was made at the end of the eighteenth century when the grain market was moved out of the main street, today's Zmaj Jovina, onto a stretch of the town's great bazaar. It runs about 210 metres and stands where the old road north to Temerin and on to Budapest left the town. The square carried the name Zitni trg until 1927, when it was renamed for Princess Zorka; the old name came back during the occupation in the Second World War, after which it became Svetozar Marković Square, and since 2001 it has been named for the benefactor Marija Trandafil. A Turkish caravanserai stood on it from 1748 until the bombardment of 1849, and the buildings that replaced it include the Serbian primary school of 1874, the orphanage endowed by Marija Trandafil in 1912 that now houses Matica srpska, and the craftsmen's hall of 1938. Trams crossed the square from 1911 until 1958.
On the card
Ujvidek, Buza-ter / Brueder Koenigstaedter
- Date
- 1895–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25944, 19.84434
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 809 × 519 px
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