A hand-coloured card of the city beach, captioned NOVISAD and Strand in Cyrillic and Latin along the lower edge. Bathers in dark one-piece costumes crowd the sandbar in their hundreds, a rope strung along the shallows behind them and willows closing the far bank. Two wooden rowing boats are drawn up on the sand, one with a pair of boys sitting in it. Strand had opened as the official beach in 1911, on the Poloj sandbar, and this is what a summer afternoon there looked like by the end of the 1920s.
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
НОВИСАД - NOVISAD. Штранд - Strand.
Novi Sad, and the name of the beach, each printed twice, in Serbian Cyrillic and then in Latin script, across the head of the card.
- Date
- 1929
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Europeana /1255/COBISS_SR_ID__20226255879__https___plus_cobiss_net_cobiss_sr_sr_bib_bmsns_226255879_
- Credit
- Matica Srpska Library via Europeana
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1800 × 1200 px
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