A tram waits before the municipal artesian bath, its current collector raised to the overhead wire on a bracket pole. Behind a low garden the domed bath house rises over awnings that shade the tables on its terrace, and figures in dark clothes stand by a kiosk at the right. The caption gives the town and the bath in Hungarian first and in Serbian Cyrillic second, the order used while the town was part of Hungary, so the card is from before 1918. The tram puts it no earlier than 1911, when the town's electric trams began to run. Both languages call the place the artesian bath, the name of the early cards; later Serbian cards call it the iodine bath.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
On the card
Ujvidék - Нови Сад / Városi artézi-fürdő - Варошко артезко купатило
Novi Sad. The municipal artesian bath, named in Hungarian and Serbian.
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2321 × 1517 px
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