The sand of the city beach packed with bathers, hundreds of them along the water and spread back across the open ground, some in bathing costume and many in ordinary summer dress with hats and parasols. A tall wooden pavilion with a shingled conical roof stands at the right, and the wooded far bank runs across the whole width behind the river.
About this place
Štrand is the city beach of Novi Sad, on the Danube near the Freedom Bridge, and its name comes straight from the German word Strand. It opened officially in 1911 on a sandbar called Poloj that had served to water livestock and then held Stengl's bathing place, with separate sections for men and women; an organised lifeguard and swimming instruction service followed in 1912. The beach runs 700 metres and covers about 14 hectares, half sand and half green, with more than 830 cabins and over 400 trees, and it draws more than a million visitors between May and September. During the raid of January 1942, Hungarian forces brought arrested Serbs and Jews to the entrance of Štrand and killed them at the water's edge, pushing the bodies under the Danube ice.
On the card
STRAND KUPATILO, NOVI SAD.
Strand bathing place, Novi Sad.
- Date
- between the wars
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 777 × 456 px
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