A hand-coloured card of Kossuth Lajos utca, today Zmaj Jovina, with tram rails curving down the middle of the street and a lattice mast carrying the overhead wire at the right. The tram opened in September 1911, so the view is after that. Crowds walk in the roadway, and the white gabled building at the left carries the sign of the Moskovits anatomical shoe factory, lettered in Hungarian with a Serbian line in Cyrillic beneath it. The printer laid an orange sunset across the sky.
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Miletićeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.
On the card
Ujvidék. Kossuth Lajos utca. Kossuth Lajos Gasse. / MOSKOVITS ANATOMIAI CZIPŐGYÁR R.T.
- Date
- 1911–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1565 × 1033 px
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