A drawing reproduced as a halftone rather than a photograph, looking along the former Main Street, today Zmaj Jovina, at its corner with Miletićeva. The Epiphany Cross stands in the roadway on the right on a stepped base, a tower behind it carrying a clock under a domed cap. The pink marble cross is the oldest surviving public monument in the city: damaged in the bombardment of 1849, restored by Marija Trandafil in 1867, and moved from this corner in 1910 to clear the way for the tram tracks. There are no rails in the road and no wires overhead, which puts the view before that. Low hills close the far end of the street beyond the houses.
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.
- Date
- circa 1880
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1600 × 688 px
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