Elizabeth square and the post office
1911–1918Post Office
The caption is Hungarian alone, which places the card before 1918, and it names both the square and the main post office standing on it. Two electric trams stand in the square on trolley poles, so the picture is 1911 or later.
About this place
The Royal Hungarian Post Palace served Novi Sad under Austria-Hungary, and the postcard of it in this archive is dated 1907 and captioned in all three languages of the city, as M. kir. postapalota, K. ung. Postpalais and in Serbian Cyrillic. It was a two storey corner building in a restrained neo-Renaissance manner, with a rusticated ground floor and arched entrances on the chamfered corner. The building that later served as the city's main post office, standing behind Trg mladenaca, is a different one: it went up in the late 19th century as the Hotel Central, in a mix of classicism and neo-Renaissance, and was handed over to the post after the boulevard then named for Queen Maria was laid out. What became of the Hungarian era post palace could not be established from the sources consulted.
On the card
Erzsebet ter fopostaval
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25344, 19.84283
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1378 × 890 px
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