A crowd stands packed along the front of a long single storey building with a steeply pitched tiled roof and a row of tall windows. Above its doorway a painted board reads ГЛАВНА ПОКРАЈИНСКА БОЛНИЦА beneath a wreathed emblem, and a second doorway further along stands propped open with people pressing at it. The queue runs from the entrance out across the pavement and past an open metal gate at the right. Most of the women wear headscarves and one stands in embroidered folk dress with a dark apron; the men are in flat caps, suits and working jackets. Bicycles are propped and wheeled among them, a puddle lies in the roadway at the left, a young tree in leaf overhangs the kerb, and taller houses with dormer windows rise behind the hospital.
About this place
Novi Sad's public hospital was built in stages between 1907 and 1912 on what was then the western edge of town, along today's Hajduk Veljkova street in the Sajmište district. Its architect was György Kopeczek, a Hungarian who specialised in hospital buildings. It opened in 1909 as the Great City Hospital, with departments for surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, skin and venereal diseases and infectious diseases, and one of the tram lines that began running in 1911 came out to it. Hungarian and German captions on the postcards name it Újvidék város közkórháza and Allgemeines Krankenhaus; Serbian cards after 1918 call it Državna bolnica, the State Hospital, and the site has stayed in hospital use ever since as the Main Provincial Hospital and now the University Clinical Centre of Vojvodina.
On the card
ГЛАВНА ПОКРАЈИНСКА БОЛНИЦА
- Date
- 1945–1960
- Coordinates
- 45.25163, 19.82206
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 736 × 452 px
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