by October 1950Iodine Spa
The town iodine bath at Novi Sad
A sepia postcard of the town's iodine bath, a two storey building in a heavy eclectic manner with a bulbous cupola on a lantern over its central bay and a second, smaller cupola beside it. A columned porch reached by steps marks the entrance, the ground floor is rusticated and oval windows sit in the gables. In front lies a lawn set with clipped conical shrubs and young bare trees, so the view was taken in winter or early spring. The caption is printed in Cyrillic and Latin with the Serbian form first, which places the printing after 1918, and a greeting written in Hungarian in ink runs across the sky.
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
Нови Сад - Novi Sad / Варошко јодно купатило - Varosko jodno kupatilo
Novi Sad. Town iodine bath
- Date
- by October 1950
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2415 × 1546 px
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