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A Row of Hospital Pavilions Along a Tree-Lined Street

1896–1918 · postcard

The public hospital and its tram, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

City hospital, City Public Hospital, Novi Sad, 1900s

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 State Hospital, Novi Sad, City Public Hospital, 1919–1941

The hospital and the Calvary from the air

1926

State Hospital, City Public Hospital, Novi Sad, 1933

The queue outside the Main Provincial Hospital

1945–1960

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. 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.