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Market day before the old parish church

second half of the nineteenth century

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

1868–1918

The old church in the city centre

1880s

Liberty Square and Its Demolished Church, Before 1892

before 1892

Building the Name of Mary Church

1893

The main square looking to the town hall

1894–1901 · postcard

Up at the Trinity column, the church tower behind

1894–1947

The cathedral spire from above the square

between 1895 and 1918 · postcard

Market Carts Across the Main Square

1896-1911 · postcard

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

Franz Joseph Square, advertising a Budapest company

1896–1918 · postcard

Market Wagons Lined Along Franz Joseph Square

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

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

The Wagner Palace on Kossuth Lajos Street

1896–1918 · postcard

A Crowded Market Before the Old Church, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall and Holy Trinity column, Novi Sad, on a relabeled postcard

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Crowd Gathered at the Column

1896–1918 · postcard

Bird's-eye view down Main Street from the church tower

1896–1918 · postcard

A Novi Sad Square with an Insurance Company Building

1896–1918 · postcard

Herger's View of the Catholic Church, Empty Streets Below, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

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

1896–1918 · postcard

The Catholic Parish Church in Colour, a Market Cart Before It

1896–1918 · postcard

Five Views of Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, 1898

by August 1898 · postcard

A Five-View Postcard of Novi Sad, Petrovaradin and Kamenica

August 1898

The Cathedral of the Name of Mary and the Eugen Stein shop corner

1900

A coloured print of the church

1900s · print

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

by April 1902 · postcard

Bird's-eye view of Main Square and the Church of the Name of Mary

by April 1902 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street from the Town Hall tower

1904

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

The Roman Catholic church, facing the square

by July 1906 · postcard

The Main Square, Novi Sad, 1906

by November 1906 · postcard

Market Day Around the Column, Wagner Testvérek Sign Above, 1906

by August 1906 · postcard

The Catholic Church Tower Above a Dusty Street of Shops

by May 1907 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Crowd and Carts Beside the Church

by August 1907 · postcard

The main square and the Holy Trinity monument

1908

Carts drawn up below the church

1909

The Trinity column across the square

1910

The Holy Trinity Column in Close-Up, with a Crowd at Its Base

1910s

Market stalls in the street, Liberty Square, Novi Sad, 1911–1930

The column beside the town hall

1911–1935

The Holy Trinity column in snow

1911–1947

Men standing at the column base

1911–1947

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

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

The Catholic parish church and river view, Novi Sad

1914 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Message Written Across the Sky

1915 · 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

Modern Novi Sad: a Curved Building, a Column and a Boulevard Corner

1919–1941 · postcard

Main Square, the Town Hall and the Holy Trinity column

1919–1941 · postcard

Three Views of Novi Sad: Bridge, Town Hall and Boulevard

1919–1941 · postcard

The Town Hall, with a modern hotel nearby

1919–1941 · postcard

The Church of the Name of Mary and the Holy Trinity Column, Novi Sad

by February 1920 · 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

Liberation Square and the Town Hall, 9 October 1935

by October 1935 · postcard

Pen Sketch of the Town Hall and Holy Trinity Column, Novi Sad

1935 · postcard

In among the promenading crowd

1935

The Trinity column and the square under reconstruction

1939

Liberation Square, a Tram Passing the Matica Srpska Building, 1940

by May 1940 · postcard

The Town Hall, with market stalls nearby

by July 1941 · postcard

Buses Parked Near the Church and Column, 1941

by April 1941 · postcard

Liberation Square, the Apoteka Pharmacy Corner and the Column, 1941

by May 1941 · postcard

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

1941. · postcard

Nine Views: Town Hall, the Klein Corner and Petrovaradin Fortress

by December 1941 · postcard

Novi Sad, a Plaza with a Column Monument and Modern Shops

1941 · postcard

An Elevated View of the Square, a Modern Block Beside the Column

1941. · postcard

Six Views: Spire, Modern Towers, Bridge and Traffic by Night

1941. · postcard

The Roman Catholic Church From Above, Captioned Cathedral, 1941

by September 1941 · postcard

Elevated View of Liberation Square With Tram Tracks, 1941

1941. · postcard

The Park Hotel baths, Liberation Square and the Memorial Hall

by May 1941 · postcard

National Flag Square Seen From Above, Toward the Town Hall

1941–1942 · postcard

The square under snow, Liberty Square, Novi Sad, 1941–1944

National Flag Square, with a policeman directing traffic

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad: Banovina Palace, City Hall and Petrovaradin Fortress

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad Details: a Boulevard, City Hall and the Banovina Palace

1941–1945 · postcard

The Catholic Parish Church from Above, Novi Sad

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad in Nine Views: City Hall, Banovina Palace and Riverfront

1941–1945 · postcard

Rex Palace and its square, Novi Sad

1941–1945 · postcard

The Name of Mary Church and the square from above

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

Liberation Square, Restamped with Its Hungarian Occupation Name

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad: the Cathedral and Banovina Palace, for a Tobacco Outlet

1941–1945 · postcard

The Elizabeth Hotel, Town Hall, Rex Palace, Church and Workers' Home

by September 1942 · postcard

The Roman Catholic Church From Above, Flats at Right, 1942

by August 1942 · postcard

The square and the Name of Mary Church under storm clouds

1942 · postcard

Liberty Square with the Plague Column and a Tram, Novi Sad, 1942

1942

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on National Flag Square, 1942

1942. · postcard

Three Views: Town Hall Square, a Pharmacy Corner and the River

by March 1942 · postcard

Four Views: Town Hall Square, a Modern Tower and the Agraria Block

by August 1942 · postcard

Nine Views: Town Hall, a Colonnaded Building and the Fortress

by August 1943 · postcard

Tram and Crowd at National Flag Square, Beside the Column

1943. · postcard

Soldiers at the foot of the Holy Trinity column

1944

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on the Town Hall, 1944

by February 1944 · postcard

Winter on the square, Liberty Square, Novi Sad, 1947

About this place

The largest monument the main square ever carried, and it is gone. A Catholic Holy Trinity column in the Central European tradition of Trinity and plague columns, put up in 1781 and associated locally with protection from plague. On 25 July 1781 the city moved the public market scale off the square because the Catholic community intended to raise the stone monument there, the square then still working as the Great Market. It was built of stone, hard limestone and red marble, in several sculptural levels, and it was significantly restored in 1866. Published heights differ, roughly 15 to 20 metres. The sculptor is not securely identified, much of the documentation having been lost when Novi Sad was destroyed in 1849. Its imagery combined Catholic devotion with Hungarian and Habsburg politics: St Stephen of Hungary, St Ladislaus, Emperor Leopold I, the Virgin Mary, St Paul and St Teresa of Avila, with the Holy Trinity in the upper composition. After 1918 the Austro-Hungarian heraldry was reportedly altered, and again under the Hungarian occupation from 1941. It stood through the Austro-Hungarian period, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the war, and it predates the church beside it: the present Church of the Name of Mary went up in 1892 to 1895, so in most photographs here the monument is the oldest thing in the frame. It was dismantled by the post-war authorities in the late 1940s, usually dated 1947 or 1948, one stated reason being to clear the square for large gatherings. What became of the pieces is not conclusively documented; several later accounts move them to Telep, one to the grounds of St Elizabeth's church there, another into construction material. It stood on Trg slobode between the Town Hall and the Church of the Name of Mary, about 35 m from the church. It is easily confused with the Epiphany Cross, a separate and much smaller monument with its own entry here. In a photograph, the column has no railing round it, and carries clouds, cherub heads, standing statues at its corners and garland swags, with a cross at its apex. The cross stands inside an iron railing with lamps at the corners, on a pedestal with a plain oval medallion, and its top is a bare crucifix. The column never left the square; the cross moved in 1910.