A photographic postcard shows the former Novi Sad Produce Exchange facing the largely undeveloped square that is today Trg galerija. The monumental academicist building was designed by Novi Sad architect Lazar Dunđerski in 1926 for the city's produce and securities exchange and received its occupancy permit in January 1927. During the Hungarian occupation of Novi Sad the building was placed in police use, and this postcard explicitly identifies it as the Újvidék Police School. Hungarian authorities announced the establishment of a police school in the city in September 1941, and contemporary newspapers confirm that a Rendőriskola was operating during the occupation. After 1944 the former Exchange was used by Yugoslav state-security services before being assigned to the Gallery of Matica srpska, which opened here in 1958.
About this place
Trg galerija, the Square of the Galleries, lies a short walk south of the old town centre and takes its name from the three art institutions gathered around it. The block at number 1 was designed during 1926 for the Novi Sad produce and securities exchange and received its occupancy permit on 26 January 1927, with the building work carried out by the architect Filip Šmit; postcards of the following decade show the word БЕРЗА in large letters across its parapet. The Gallery of Matica Srpska moved into the former exchange in 1958 after an adaptation drawn by Ivan Zdravković, the Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection opened next door at number 2 in 1961 in a building by Ivo Kurtović, and Filip Šmit's 1923 villa on the Vase Stajića corner became the Rajko Mamuzić gallery in 1974. Everything on the square is younger than the Habsburg city, and its postcards carry Serbian captions alone, Нови Сад and Берза, rather than the Hungarian and German ones printed for older streets.
On the card
ÚJVIDÉKI RENDŐRISKOLA
Újvidék Police School
- Date
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.84570
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2347 × 1517 px
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