A horse cab stands in the foreground on a street churned to mud and snow, its driver up on the box and passengers under the hood. The shopfront behind is lettered twice for the same trader, IVKOVIĆ MILAN in Latin and Милана Ивковића in Cyrillic, with awnings running away down the row and a church spire rising beyond the roofs at the right. The card names the town in three languages and the street in three, Hungarian, Serbian and German together.
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.
On the card
Ujvidék - НОВИ-САД - Neusatz / Fő uteza - ГЛАВНА УЛИЦА - Haupt-Gasse / IVKOVIĆ MILAN / Милана Ивковића
Ujvidék, Novi Sad, Neusatz. Main Street. Milan Ivković.
- Date
- 1900s
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1586 × 1020 px
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