1900sWheat Square
A Crowd Gathered by the Arcaded Market Hall, Wheat Square
Wheat Square (Житни трг, Búza tér), the market square that begins at the end of Furrier Street and ends at the large stone cross where the Temerin road leaves the city. 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 and an advertising column on the footway. The sender has written across the top of the picture in ink, in Hungarian: on Thursday there will be a pig slaughter at ours. Cards of this decade carried their message on the picture side, because the back was reserved for the address.
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
Ujvidék. — Нови-Сад. — Neusatz. / Buza-tér / Csütörtökön lesz nálunk disznóvágás.
- Date
- 1900s
- Coordinates
- 45.25944, 19.84434
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1208 × 766 px
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