An elevated view along a wide new boulevard, taken from above the shrubs of a garden. A rounded corner block of four storeys anchors the near end, its windows set in continuous bands and a sculptural group standing on the roof parapet between two slender masts, and behind it a run of flat-roofed modernist blocks steps away down the street. The roadway below opens into a roundabout with planted islands and young avenue trees, a few figures crossing it and a car at the kerb on the right. The card came from a Budapest publisher and the corner block was finished in the later 1930s, which places it in the Hungarian administration of 1941 to 1944.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
- Date
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2369 × 1546 px
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