second half of the nineteenth centuryOld Parish Church
Market day before the old parish church
A market fills the main square, carts drawn up with a white ox in the traces, sacks and baskets of produce set out along the near side and women in headscarves standing among them. Behind rises the OLD baroque parish church with its clock tower and flanking turrets, the Holy Trinity column to its right, and the long low shopfronts of the square on either side. This is the square before it was rebuilt: the baroque church shown here was taken down and replaced by the present neo-Gothic Church of the Name of Mary.
About this place
This Roman Catholic parish church stood on the main square of Novi Sad until the Name of Mary Church replaced it on the same site. The parish dates from 1702, and its first church, a modest temporary building, was taken down in 1742. On the same ground a new church went up, helped by well-off Catholics who had moved here after Belgrade fell to the Ottomans in 1739, and Gábor Patachich, Archbishop of Kalocsa, consecrated it in 1742. Set on fire in the bombardment of 12 June 1849, it lost its tower, and the repairs never rebuilt the original tower in full. After the city decided in 1891 to replace it, the church was pulled down in 1892, the year György Molnár drew the plans for its successor. This archive's photographs show its last years: a whitewashed front with one clock tower under a low pyramid roof between two small pedimented gables, beside the Holy Trinity column, with market carts before it.
On the card
МАТИЦА СРПСКА | P. RADISOVICS | HIER I[…]
Matica Srpska on the roofline sign of the building at the right. A shopfront below it reads P. Radisovics. A painted roof sign further left begins HIER, German for here.
- Date
- second half of the nineteenth century
- Coordinates
- 45.25563, 19.84567
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2504 × 1748 px
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