by May 1940Liberty Square
Liberation Square, a Tram Passing the Matica Srpska Building, 1940
A large modern warehouse building carries painted lettering including Творничко стовариште, factory warehouse, at left, and the older building beside it at right is clearly signed Матица Српска, the historic Serbian cultural institution, with further shopfronts reading Џентлмен and Фишер Ј. Син along the same block. The Holy Trinity column and a tram are visible near the edge of the frame. The heading, Новисад, Трг Ослобођења, Novisad, Trg Oslobodjenja, appears at lower left.
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
Novisad. Trg. Oslobodjenja
- Date
- by May 1940
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2336 × 1528 px
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