A domed tower rises at the building's far end, and a small group of pupils and passers-by stands on the pavement outside its arcaded ground floor, with a handcart waiting at the kerb. The heading reads Magyar Kir. Fögymnasium, the Royal Hungarian Grammar School, with the publisher's imprint, Singer Jozsef, udvari fényképész, Kiadása és tulajdona, down the left edge.
Published by Josef Singer
About this place
The house at Kossuth Lajos utca 43, on the corner of Örmény utca, Armenian Street, was the earlier home of the Royal Hungarian Catholic grammar school, near the Armenian church. After the Hungarian school law of 1868 the town's Catholics campaigned for a gymnasium; the crown granted it in January 1873, and it opened on 4 October 1873 with four classes. The town magistrate put up its school building in 1876 from the municipal education fund, and by 1877 it had eight classes, 13 teachers and 181 pupils. A new building for it was begun at Futoška 17 in 1912, and advertisements from 1914 call the corner house the old grammar school. It also housed a court, and when it was pulled down, as the boulevard was driven through the old town under the plan of 1950, it held the Vojvodina Museum. The Bazar department store, designed in 1972 by Milan Mihelič, stands on its site. This archive's postcards show its long front, with the Armenian church tower beyond.
On the card
Ujvidék. / Magyar Kir. Fögymnasium. / Udvari fényképész, Singer Josef Kiadása es tulajdona.
Novi Sad. Royal Hungarian High School. Published and owned by Singer Josef, court photographer.
- Date
- by November 1899
- Coordinates
- 45.25375, 19.84455
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2392 × 1546 px
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