by December 1914Futak Street
Puttaki Street, with the Roman Catholic church spire
A small group, including a man in a boater hat and a woman with a child, stands on the pavement in the foreground, and the street closes on the Roman Catholic church spire from a straight approach. The heading, Puttaki utcza, Puttaker-Gasse, closely resembles the spelling of Futaki utca recorded elsewhere and may be a variant transliteration of the same street name rather than a different street: the Futaki cards close on the same spire from the same kind of approach.
About this place
Futoška street is the old road running west out of Novi Sad toward Futog, the settlement some 7 km away that Hungarian sources call Futak and German ones Alt-Futok. It was once a single long street reaching from the town centre out to the Futog road, and its inner end became Jevrejska street when the boulevard now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina was cut through; in the 1930s the whole length, Jevrejska included, was renamed for King Peter II. The building at Futoška 17, put up in 1912 as a Hungarian gymnasium, still stands and houses the Mihajlo Pupin electrical engineering school. The Futoška market on the street remains one of the busiest in the city.
On the card
Újvidék. Puttaki utca
- Date
- by December 1914
- Coordinates
- 45.24966, 19.82826
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2106 × 1366 px
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