1896–1918Liberty Square
A Novi Sad Square with an Insurance Company Building
A busy square with a Baroque plague or Holy Trinity column at left and a large Historicist building at center bearing a sign for a farmers' insurance cooperative and further shop signs including one reading Grosz-Lazits. A traffic policeman in a white uniform stands in the middle of the square, and overhead tram wires cross above the street. The photograph was issued for a Hungarian state tobacco retailer in the city, an outlet that could only operate under Hungarian administration, but nothing else in the scene narrows this further between the two periods when that was true.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2480 × 1546 px
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