The town is named in all three of its languages while the street carries only its Hungarian name, in the older cz spelling, which places the card before 1918. A shopfront is lettered in Cyrillic for two Serbian partners, so a Serbian firm traded on a street named for a Hungarian statesman. Horse carriages stand in a line beside the tall carved column, with not a motor among them, and a church spire rises beyond the roofs.
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 Jovanovic 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. Mileticeva, 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
Ujvidek / Novi Sad / Neusatz / Kossuth Lajos-utcza / Petrovic / Popovic
- Date
- 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25651, 19.84727
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 600 × 390 px
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