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Novi Sad Across the Water, Two Men in a Small Boat

1896–1918 · postcard

A crowd in Almaška Street, Almaska Church, Novi Sad, around 1900

Workers at the Royal Hungarian Silk Mill

1900–1908

Seated shoulder to shoulder, The Marić House, Novi Sad, 1903–1914

Swimmers in the old canal lock

1950s

ADRIA circus in Podbara, Novi Sad, 1955–1965

Fish Market Square Dug Up for Rebuilding

1959

Buses in the snow at the Fish Market terminal

1965–1975

Suburban bus station next to Fish Market

1970s

The church above the low houses

1972

About this place

Podbara is one of the oldest quarters of Novi Sad, lying north east of the old centre between Temerinska street, the Danube-Tisa-Danube canal and the river. It was settled in 1718 by villagers from Almaš, who left their marshy land and made a new home on the edge of the Petrovaradin Trench beside a large pond; the pond gave the quarter its name, and the settlers gave it its second one, Almaški kraj. The first houses were wattle daubed with mud and roofed with reed, and the district stayed poor and looked down on by the merchants of the centre, which is one reason its people set out to build the largest Orthodox church in the city, the Almaš church consecrated in 1797. The pond was drained after the canal was dug in 1875 and the ground became pasture and then the city's first industrial zone, which was moved away in the 1960s and replaced by tall housing blocks.

Podbara

Images14

Novi Sad Across the Water, Two Men in a Small Boat

A crowd in Almaška Street

Workers at the Royal Hungarian Silk Mill

Seated shoulder to shoulder

Einstein family

In the garden with a baby

Two boats on the still water

The silk mill and its chimney

Swimmers in the old canal lock

ADRIA circus in Podbara

Fish Market Square Dug Up for Rebuilding

Buses in the snow at the Fish Market terminal

Suburban bus station next to Fish Market

The church above the low houses