A decoratively bordered postcard looks down a street at a domed corner building identified as the Serbian poorhouse, with a shop and awning at street level and a small group of people gathered outside. Tram rails run along the cobbled street in the foreground, though no tram car is in view. The caption is given in Hungarian above a second line in Serbian Cyrillic.
About this place
The house was the largest endowment of Marija Trandafil, a Novi Sad landowner who died in 1883 after making her whole estate over to Matica srpska, and it was built to keep orphaned and poor Serbian Orthodox children. It went up in 1912 on the plot of the old caravanserai that had burned when the city was shelled in 1849, to a design by Momčilo Tapavica, a Novi Sad architect who had taken third place in tennis at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Postcards of 1915 and 1916 name the street Szűcs utca and Ћурчиска улица, the furriers' street, and label the building szerb szegényház in Hungarian and Сиротиште in Serbian. The children were moved out in 1928 and Matica srpska took the premises for itself; the building stands at Matice srpske 1, on the corner of the square that has carried Marija Trandafil's name since 2001.
On the card
Újvidék. Szücs utca a szerb szegényházzal
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25909, 19.84510
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 960 × 1495 px
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