The same card, written across in ink
1900sWheat Square
Wheat square (starts at the end of Furrier street and ends with a large stone cross. From here begins the Temerin road.) The same printed card as the clean copy in this archive, here with a message written in ink across the top of the picture. Wheat square (Житни трг) A crowd of men in hats and women in long skirts is gathered in front of the long arcaded building, with carts drawn up beyond them. The same card appears again in this archive with a message written across the top.
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, which is why this archive's caption says the Temerin road begins here. The square carried the name Žitni 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.
- Date
- 1900s
- Coordinates
- 45.25944, 19.84434
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1208 × 766 px
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