A tramcar stands on the rails in the middle of the street with a crowd around it, boys and a bicycle in the foreground and children in white among the people further back. At the right the elaborate Secession front of the Menrath Palace carries MÖBEL HAUS lettered across its top storey, above deep awnings over the shops, and a domed tower rises over the buildings at the left. The street is unpaved between the rails. The electric tram puts the picture in 1911 or later.
About this place
The Menrath palace is one of the few Art Nouveau buildings in Novi Sad, put up in 1908 to a design by Lipót Baumhorn, the Budapest architect who also built the city's synagogue. It was raised for the merchant Josef Menrath and has kept his name since. Serbian surveys of Secession architecture list it alongside the Tomin palace of 1909, also by Baumhorn, and the Adamović palace of 1911 as the principal works of that manner in the city, which produced far fewer of them than Subotica did.
On the card
MÖBEL HAUS
Furniture house.
- Date
- 1911–1929
- Coordinates
- 45.25393, 19.84362
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1608 × 1012 px
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