# The former Exchange used as a police school

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.

- Date: 1941–1944
- Place: [Gallery Square](https://archive.neusatz.cc/s/trg-galerija/index.md)
- Kind: postcard
- Lettering on the object: ÚJVIDÉKI RENDŐRISKOLA
- Lettering in English: Újvidék Police School
- Source: [Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok](https://gallery.hungaricana.hu/en/SzerencsKepeslap/1257190/)
- Credit: Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence: Public domain
- Image: https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d133f8c55431/large.jpg
- Page: https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d133f8c55431/

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