by May 1915Liberty Square
Franz Joseph Square, a Tram Crossing Beside the Column
Colour-tinted over a black-and-white photograph, with the Holy Trinity column rising at the right beside a horse and cart and a single tram crossing the square in the middle distance. The buildings behind carry tinted domed and turreted roofs, in the square now called Trg slobode. The tinting brightens the sky and rooftops while the figures below stay in grey tones.
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.
On the card
Újvidék Ferenc József tér
- Date
- by May 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2351 × 1523 px
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