1941–1945Liberty Square
Novi Sad in Four Views: the Banovina Palace Tower, Tobacco Wholesaler
Four views of Ujvidek: a boulevard leading to City Hall with a tram in the distance, a busy square where a traffic policeman in white stands before the Holy Trinity column and a row of Historicist buildings, the ribbed tower of the Banovina Palace complex, and a modern building marked with a large letter V near a factory chimney trailing smoke. The card was issued for the Hungarian royal tobacco wholesale concern in the city, a state monopoly that could only operate under Hungarian administration, and the finished Banovina Palace tower rules out the pre-1918 period.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
- Date
- 1941–1945
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2480 × 1546 px
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