A closer view of the same streamlined office building shows its ground floor shops, including the Agraria company and a neighboring Duna-branded storefront, sheltered under a long awning. Young trees have been planted along the pavement in front. The caption reads Ujvidék, Habag, in quotation marks.
About this place
The Habag palace stands at the start of Vase Stajića street, on the corner of what is now Trg galerija, and was completed in 1931 as the central building of the German community in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. It held the offices of the Kulturbund and of the German agricultural credit cooperative Agraria, and a well known café called Habag occupied the ground floor. Sources disagree about who designed it: Serbian accounts credit the Vršac architect Viljem Rihard, while the German heritage project Danube Places names the architect Oskar Pakvor and the builder Philipp Schmidt, so the attribution should be treated as unsettled. Construction is usually dated from 1929 to 1931.
On the card
Újvidék "Habag"
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25244, 19.84528
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2356 × 1538 px
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