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Market Carts Across the Main Square

1896-1911 · postcard

A Novi Sad Square with an Insurance Company Building

1896–1918 · postcard

The fruit stall under its umbrella

1900s

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, the corner buildings

1915 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Tram Crossing Beside the Column

by May 1915 · postcard

Woman Crossing Franz Joseph Square, 1918

by May 1918 · postcard

Over the roofs of the old centre

1920

Liberation Square, Cabs Queued Below the Church Spire, 1927

by July 1927 · postcard

The first buses, Liberty Square, Novi Sad, 1931

Over the square to the church and the Tanurdžić Palace

1934–1947

A bus at the Meteor corner, Iron Man Palace, Novi Sad, 1935-1949

Church and Market Stalls on Liberation Square, 1941

1941. · postcard

National Flag Square Seen From Above, Toward the Town Hall

1941–1942 · postcard

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

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

Gothic Spire and the Hotel Rex Awning Over a Crowded Pavement, 1943

1943. · postcard

Liberation of the city, 23 October 1944

23 October 1944

Tram wires across the church front

1950s

Trams and buses together on the main square

1958

The double-decker by the church

1961

Crossing Liberty Square Beside the Vojvođanska Bank, 1970

1970

About this place

The Iron Man palace stands at Njegoševa 2, closing the corner of Liberty Square beside the Name of Mary Church. The Roman Catholic parish had it built in 1908 and 1909 as a Secession block of flats and shops, to plans by the Budapest architect Károly Kovács working with Béla Pekló. It takes its name from the armoured warrior with a halberd in his right hand who stands in a niche under a small cupola on the corner. The figure came from the older house of the same name on this site, which was adapted in 1846 for the town magistrate and burned in the bombardment of 1849. From 1913 the building held the Dornšteter patisserie; after its owner died in 1944 it passed to the state and traded as Moskva, then as Zagreb, the name on a shop sign in this archive's photograph, and since the 1990s as Atina. The facades and the figure were restored in 2004.