by May 1911District Court
The Law Court Palace, with a crowd gathered outside
A large crowd, many of them children, has gathered on the pavement outside the courthouse gates, its twin domes patinated green above the cornice. The heading reads simply Újvidék, Törvényszéki palota. The card is dated 30 May 1911.
About this place
The court house stands at the Danube park end of Dunavska street and was raised in 1896 to plans by the Budapest architect Gyula Wagner. Under Hungarian rule it held the royal court of justice, and a trilingual postcard of 1915 labels it M. Kir. Törvényszék, Окружни суд and Justizpalais, giving the Hungarian, Serbian and German names in turn. It went on housing courts after 1918, when the city passed to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Vojvodina Museum, founded in 1947 and without adequate premises for decades, moved into the former courthouse in 1974 and occupies it still under the name Museum of Vojvodina.
On the card
Újvidék; Törvényszéki Palota
- Date
- by May 1911
- Coordinates
- 45.25647, 19.85145
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2332 × 1516 px
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