The pavilions stand out on open ground beyond a rough field of scrub and young planting, before the streets had reached them, and the sky is painted in. The caption is Hungarian alone, which places the card before 1918, and it calls the hospital municipal, so the town rather than the state or a church was running it.
About this place
Novi Sad's public hospital was built in stages between 1907 and 1912 on what was then the western edge of town, along today's Hajduk Veljkova street in the Sajmište district. Its architect was György Kopeczek, a Hungarian who specialised in hospital buildings. It opened in 1909 as the Great City Hospital, with departments for surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, skin and venereal diseases and infectious diseases, and one of the tram lines that began running in 1911 came out to it. Hungarian and German captions on the postcards name it Újvidék város közkórháza and Allgemeines Krankenhaus; Serbian cards after 1918 call it Državna bolnica, the State Hospital, and the site has stayed in hospital use ever since as the Main Provincial Hospital and now the University Clinical Centre of Vojvodina.
- Date
- 1900s
- Coordinates
- 45.25163, 19.82206
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1160 × 734 px
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