A long two storey barrack block seen across a wide expanse of open ground. Its front runs almost the full width of the card, a regular range of round headed windows to both floors under a continuous eaves, broken at the centre by a slightly projecting pavilion carrying a lettered panel and a small balcony, with a low porch beneath it. A boundary wall with piers runs along the front, behind which a line of young trees is planted at regular intervals. Small figures stand and walk along the wall and at the gateway, and a horse and cart wait further along to the right. The foreground is a great open field of rutted mud with standing water in the hollows and a rough track crossing it, and two figures in long coats walk toward the camera across it. A utility pole stands at the right.
About this place
The barracks of the Honvéd, the Hungarian territorial army, built in 1894 and 1895 in Futoška street by the Novi Sad contractor Imre Kicveger. It was one of two barracks complexes the city put up in the 1890s on a single loan of 430,000 forints, having decided that renting private houses to quarter troops was costing more than building would. The names changed with the politics: Archduke Joseph under Austria-Hungary, King Alexander I in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito afterwards, and Arčibald Rajs today. A building of 850 square metres was added behind it in 1947 for a military school, to a design by Đorđe Tabaković.
It is a separate complex from the infantry barracks of 1895 that carried the name of King Peter I, which stood on the other side of the town and has its own entry here. The Honvéd was Hungary's territorial force and the Imperial and Royal infantry the common army of the monarchy.
On the card
Ujvidék
József főherceg honvéd laktanya
Erzherzog Josef Honvéd Kaserne
Ujvidek. The Archduke Joseph honved barracks.
- Date
- about 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25008, 19.83124
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1480 × 947 px
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