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Strossmayer Street, Petrovaradin, Seen From the Pavement

1896–1918 · postcard

Elevated View Down Strossmayer Street, Petrovaradin

1896–1918 · postcard

The Steep Cobbled Climb Up Church Street, Petrovaradin, 1900

by August 1900 · postcard

Church Street, Petrovaradin, Novi Sad, 1900s

Strossmayer Street in Petrovaradin

1900–1918

Low houses with their shutters

1934

Frankopan Street, Petrovaradin, Three Children on the Pavement

1941. · postcard

A locomotive on the viaduct over the street

1941-1962

The empty street after rain, Strossmayer Street, Petrovaradin, 1942

Fortress gate from Strossmayer Street

1950s

The Railway Trestle Along Strossmayer Street, Petrovaradin, 1958

1958

Train in Strossmayer Street, Petrovaradin, 1960

Last train through Petrovaradin

27 May 1962

The last train coming off the line into Strossmayer Street

1964

About this place

Štrosmajerova is the main street of the Podgrađe, the baroque lower town that sits inside the outworks of the Petrovaradin fortress and is known locally as Gradić. The quarter took shape between 1692 and 1728 and filled with the institutions of a garrison town, and the street climbs from it towards the fortress gates. At number 20 stands the Franciscan church and friary of St George, the oldest church in Petrovaradin, built between 1701 and 1714 on the model of the Jesuit church of Il Gesù in Rome. A railway ran along the street from 1941 until 1962, the last train running on 27 May of that year, and the soot from it blackened the church's white front and the house fronts around it, which is what the photographs of trains in the street record. The name refers to Josip Juraj Strossmayer, the Croatian bishop of Đakovo who died in 1905.