1941–1945Liberty Square
Liberation Square, Restamped with Its Hungarian Occupation Name
A photographic postcard of Liberation Square shows the town hall's clock tower rising behind a Baroque plague column, with a Schicht soap advertisement mounted on the square and tram rails running past pedestrians and horse carts. The original caption, printed in Serbian Cyrillic and Latin script, names the square Trg Oslobodjenja. A later purple stamp reading Ujvidek, Neusatz has been applied directly over that printed caption.
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.
On the card
Újvidék Trg Oslobodjenja sa Gradskom Kucom
- Date
- 1941–1945
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2350 × 1531 px
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