A trilingual card of Kossuth Lajos utca, today Zmaj Jovina, looking east from Franz Joseph Square, today Liberty Square. The corner building at the left carries two fascias, RECÉNYI ISTVÁN above and SCHATTELES NÁNDOR below, with a WALTHAM watch poster beside the door, and the Church of the Name of Mary stands immediately left of it. Awnings and market goods run down the pavement, the square opens across the empty roadway at the right, and an ornate building with a small turret closes the far end of the street. There are no rails in the road, so the view is before the tram opened in 1911.
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
- 1901–1910
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1373 × 889 px
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