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

1868–1918

The Town Hall and Roman Catholic church, Main Square

1895–1915

The main square at Novi Sad from above, a second print of the same view

1896–1918 · postcard

Novi Sad's Main Square from Above, the Alga Sign Visible

1896–1918 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer in winter

1896–1918 · postcard

The river, seen past the Grand Hotel Mayer's dome

1896–1918 · postcard

The Savings Bank building along the street, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

The Holy Trinity column on Franz Joseph Square

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall and Main Square, Novi Sad, 1896–1918

Franz Joseph Square, nuns passing the Holy Trinity column

1896–1918 · postcard

Market day by the Grand Hotel Mayer

1896–1918 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer and the market stalls

1896–1918 · postcard

A Novi Sad Square with an Insurance Company Building

1896–1918 · postcard

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

1896–1918 · postcard

The fruit stall under its umbrella

1900s

The town hall across the square

1900–1918

Panorama of the City, a Domed Building at Centre

by October 1901 · postcard

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

Franz Joseph Square and the Savings Bank

1905

The Main Square, Novi Sad, 1906

by November 1906 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Crowd and Carts Beside the Church

by August 1907 · postcard

The Grand Hotel Mayer on the main square

1908

Franz Joseph Square, the Savings Bank and a Domed Hotel

by April 1910 · postcard

Grand Hotel Mayer and the Savings Bank

1910s

Market carts, on a mounted card

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

Grand Hotel Mayer, Mayer Imre's Wing and a Beer Hall Sign

by December 1914 · postcard

Market Carts Before the Church on the Main Square

1915

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

Over the roofs of the old centre

1920

Liberation Square, Cabs Queued Below the Church Spire, 1927

by July 1927 · postcard

The State Mortgage Bank's Main Branch, Novi Sad

1930s

The Trinity column and the square under reconstruction

1939

Liberation Square, Men Gathered by a Goodrich Advertisement, 1941

by April 1941 · postcard

Elevated View of Liberation Square With Tram Tracks, 1941

1941. · postcard

Church and Market Stalls on Liberation Square, 1941

1941. · postcard

National Flag Square Seen From Above, Toward the Town Hall

1941–1942 · postcard

National Flag Square, with a policeman directing traffic

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad in Four Views: the Banovina Palace Tower, Tobacco Wholesaler

1941–1945 · postcard

The square and the Name of Mary Church under storm clouds

1942 · postcard

Main Square and the Church of the Name of Mary

1942. · postcard

Tram and Crowd at National Flag Square, Beside the Column

1943. · postcard

Trams and buses together on the main square

1958

Crossing Liberty Square Beside the Vojvođanska Bank, 1970

1970

About this place

The Novi Sad Savings Bank was founded in 1864 and is reckoned the oldest financial institution in Serbia; it became Novosadska banka, which joined the Erste group in 2005. Its house stood on the main square, called Franz Joseph Square under Austria-Hungary and Trg slobode today, next door to the Grand Hotel, and postcards sold the pair together under a double caption, Takarékpénztár és Grand Hotel in Hungarian and Sparkasse und Grand Hotel in German. The building was an eclectic palace with a giant order of columns running through the upper floors and a pedimented centre pierced by a round window, its own name cut across the entablature in Hungarian as Újvidéki Takarékpénztár, with shops at street level. György Molnár, who designed the Town Hall and the Catholic church on the same square, was elected the bank's general director in 1876; who designed its building is not recorded here.