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Franz Joseph Square, Novi Sad, with the Holy Trinity Column

1868–1918

The Redoute hall of the Grand Hotel Mayer

1890s

The Town Hall and Roman Catholic church, Main Square

1895–1915

The main square at Novi Sad from above, a second print of the same view

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, Shopfronts and a Policeman by the Column

1896–1918 · postcard

Novi Sad's Main Square from Above, the Alga Sign Visible

1896–1918 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer in winter

1896–1918 · postcard

The river, seen past the Grand Hotel Mayer's dome

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, the Town Hall and the tram line

1896–1918 · postcard

The Main Square, Novi Sad, Published by Stöger József

1896–1918 · postcard

The Holy Trinity column on Franz Joseph Square

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall and Main Square, Novi Sad, 1896–1918

Panoramic View of Novi Sad from a Church Tower

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, nuns passing the Holy Trinity column

1896–1918 · postcard

Main Square, the Town Hall and a policeman on duty

1896–1918 · postcard

Market day by the Grand Hotel Mayer

1896–1918 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer and the market stalls

1896–1918 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer and Petrovaradin Fortress with its pontoon bridge

1896–1918 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer, with market carriages outside

1896–1918 · postcard

A Novi Sad Square with an Insurance Company Building

1896–1918 · postcard

Novi Sad: City Hall and Holy Trinity Column on Market Day

1896–1918 · postcard

Grand Hotel Mayer Facade Above the Rooftops, 1899

by October 1899 · postcard

The fruit stall under its umbrella

1900s

The town hall across the square

1900–1918

The Grand Hotel on Main Street

1901 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, the Grand Hotel Mayer and the savings bank

by April 1902 · postcard

A Crowd Before the Town Hall, with Horse Cabs

by September 1902 · postcard

The Main Square, Novi Sad, a Second Spire in the Distance, 1902

by September 1902 · postcard

Horse Cabs and Market Stalls in the Main Square, 1905

1905

Colour-Tinted View of the Church With Market Crowds, 1905

by September 1905 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square and the Savings Bank

1905

The Main Square, Novi Sad, 1906

by November 1906 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer on the main square

1908

Franz Joseph Square, the Savings Bank and a Domed Hotel

by April 1910 · postcard

Grand Hotel Mayer and the Savings Bank

1910s

Franz Joseph Square, the Town Hall and the Trinity Column, 1912

1912

Market carts, on a mounted card

1912

Franz Joseph Square in Monochrome, a Stationary Tram, 1913

1913. · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Hand-tinted View With a Tram Passing, 1914

by September 1914 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square in Colour, a Tram by the Town Hall

1914 · postcard

Grand Hotel Mayer, Mayer Imre's Wing and a Beer Hall Sign

by December 1914 · postcard

Market Carts Before the Church on the Main Square

1915

Franz Joseph Square, a Tram Crossing Beside the Column

by May 1915 · postcard

Woman Crossing Franz Joseph Square, 1918

by May 1918 · postcard

Main Square, the Town Hall and the Holy Trinity column

1919–1941 · postcard

The Town Hall, with a modern hotel nearby

1919–1941 · postcard

Over the roofs of the old centre

1920

The Great People's Assembly of 1918, painted by Anastas Bocarić

1922–1923 · painting

Liberation Square, Cabs Queued Below the Church Spire, 1927

by July 1927 · postcard

The Trinity column and the square under reconstruction

1939

The Holy Trinity Column with Men Gathered at Its Base, 1941

1941. · postcard

Liberation Square, Men Gathered by a Goodrich Advertisement, 1941

by April 1941 · postcard

Elevated View of Liberation Square With Tram Tracks, 1941

1941. · postcard

Church and Market Stalls on Liberation Square, 1941

1941. · postcard

National Flag Square Seen From Above, Toward the Town Hall

1941–1942 · postcard

National Flag Square, with a policeman directing traffic

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad in Four Views: the Banovina Palace Tower, Tobacco Wholesaler

1941–1945 · postcard

Four views: National Flag Square, the post office, Health Palace

1941–1945 · postcard

The square and the Name of Mary Church under storm clouds

1942 · postcard

Main Square and the Church of the Name of Mary

1942. · postcard

Tram and Crowd at National Flag Square, Beside the Column

1943. · postcard

Trams and buses together on the main square

1958

About this place

A hotel on the north-east side of the main square, next door to the Novi Sad Savings Bank. The building was raised in 1892 in an eclectic manner with neo-Renaissance detail, two storeys under a cupola, its central bay flanked by paired half-columns and its facade carrying festoons of branches and fruit, satyr heads and palmettes over the first-floor windows and heads of women set in shells over the second. It stands on a site that had held a coffee house since the middle of the eighteenth century and then the Zeleni venac hotel. Emerich Mayer was among its owners, and Lazar Dunđerski bought it in 1916. It became the Sloboda hotel in 1947 and the Army Hall in 1953, and the Serbian National Theatre played in the Sloboda's hall. The Great National Assembly of Vojvodina met in the building in 1918. It is protected as a cultural monument of great significance. Postcards sold the hotel and the savings bank together under a double caption, Takarekpenztar es Grand Hotel and Sparkasse und Grand Hotel, so the two buildings share a great many frames. A beer hall traded on the ground floor, signed in three languages as Sorcsarnok, Pivara and Bierhalle.