1911–1958Liberty Square
Sinking a pole on the main square, with the tram passing
A raised view across the main square while work is going on in the middle of it. In the centre foreground a group of men in shirtsleeves and caps work a timber shear legs rig over a hole in the paving, a heavy frame of poles lashed at the head with a block and tackle, hauling on ropes while others steady a pole being lowered. Broken paving and heaps of spoil lie around the opening. A crowd stands in a loose ring watching, men in shirtsleeves, women in summer dresses, several boys in front, one with a bicycle. At the left a four wheel tram motor car stands on its rails with the overhead wire above it, a lorry and a van parked beyond. Further back a second lorry crosses the open square and small figures walk about it. At the right a monument on a tall pedestal rises at the edge of the frame, with more onlookers and bicycles at its foot, and the frontages of the square close the view behind.
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
- 1911–1958
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 720 × 566 px
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