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The Royal Hungarian Honvéd Barracks, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

Troops drawn up along the front of the honved barracks

about 1900–1918 · postcard

The Archduke Joseph honved barracks

about 1900–1918 · postcard

Two trams outside the Archduke Joseph barracks

1911–1918 · postcard

The King Alexander Barracks

1921–1941

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.