The bishop's palace stands across the open ground with its central tower and steep roof, a monument before it and low buildings running away on either side. A tram comes down the street in the foreground carrying a destination board, with overhead wires above it and an ornate lamp standard beside the track. The block at the left carries shop lettering in Hungarian and in Cyrillic, including AMERIKAI NAGYBAZAR. The card is hand-coloured and captioned in Hungarian and German, which places it before 1918, while the tram places it at 1911 or later.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
On the card
Ujvidék-Neusatz / Szerb püspöki palota / Serb. Bischöfl. Palais / AMERIKAI NAGYBAZAR
Ujvidék. The Serbian bishop's palace. American great bazaar.
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1024 × 665 px
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