A trilingual card looking west along Kossuth Lajos utca, today Zmaj Jovina, from the corner with Miletićeva toward Franz Joseph Square. The Epiphany Cross stands in the roadway on its ornate pedestal, an oval relief on the face and a lamp at the corner of its railing, and a row of carriages waits beside it. The spire of the Church of the Name of Mary rises above the street in the distance, and the shopfront at the right is lettered ПЕТРОВИЋ И ПОПОВИЋ. The cross stood at this corner until 1910, when it was moved for the building of the tram line.
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Miletićeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.
On the card
Ujvidék. — Нови-Сад. — Neusatz. / Kossuth Lajos-utca
- Date
- 1895–1909
- Coordinates
- 45.25651, 19.84727
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 600 × 390 px
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