Images9

Bare trees before the pavilions

1910s

Tracks running past the hospital

1910s

The long wards behind the fence

1911–1930

The telegraph pole down the middle

1913

Three portrait heads on the card

1914

A cyclist on the hospital drive

1915

The entrance front, in colour, City Public Hospital, Novi Sad, 1918–1929

About this place

Novi Sad's public hospital was built in stages between 1907 and 1912 on what was then the western edge of town, along today's Hajduk Veljkova street in the Sajmište district. Its architect was György Kopeczek, a Hungarian who specialised in hospital buildings and who had also designed the city theatre in 1907. It opened in 1909 as the Great City Hospital, with departments for surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, skin and venereal diseases and infectious diseases, and one of the tram lines that began running in 1911 came out to it. Hungarian and German captions on the postcards name it Újvidék város közkórháza and Allgemeines Krankenhaus; Serbian cards after 1918 call it Državna bolnica, the State Hospital, and the site has stayed in hospital use ever since as the Main Provincial Hospital and now the University Clinical Centre of Vojvodina.

Hajduk Veljkova 1, Novi Sad