circa 1910Iodine Spa
Motor omnibuses at the Iodine Spa
Two early motor omnibuses stand at the kerb in front of the long stuccoed front of the municipal artesian bath. The nearer vehicle is an open sided charabanc on wooden spoked wheels, with a flat canopy roof on slender posts, a driver and a uniformed man at the front and a painted legend running along the panel below its windows. The second is an enclosed omnibus with a long row of windows down its side. People are gathered around both, among them women in wide hats and several children, and a figure leans from an upper window of the building to watch. The bath opened in 1910 on the ground where iodine rich water had been struck in 1897, and it ran its own motor service to carry subscribers to and from the town.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
- Date
- circa 1910
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1240 × 666 px
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