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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

Franz Joseph Square, Shopfronts and a Policeman by the Column

1896–1918 · postcard

Greetings from Novi Sad: Town Hall, Matica Srpska, Serbian Church

1896–1918 · postcard

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

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, advertising a Budapest company

1896–1918 · postcard

The town hall from above, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, the Town Hall and the tram line

1896–1918 · postcard

The Main Square, Novi Sad, Published by Stöger József

1896–1918 · postcard

The Elizabeth Hotel and the Town Hall square

1896–1918 · postcard

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

Main Square, the Town Hall and a policeman on duty

1896–1918 · postcard

Looking Up at the Town Hall as a Tram Passes, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall Square, a Hand-Tinted View, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall and Holy Trinity column, Novi Sad, on a relabeled postcard

1896–1918 · postcard

Franz Joseph Square, a Crowd Gathered at the Column

1896–1918 · postcard

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

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall's Boulevard, a Domed Building Alongside, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

The Town Hall and a Fair in the Square, Novi Sad

1896–1918 · postcard

Bird's-eye view of Franz Joseph Square and the Town Hall

1896–1918 · postcard

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

1896–1918 · postcard

Market day at the Town Hall square

1896–1918 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street toward the square

1896-1918

Five Views of Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, 1898

by August 1898 · postcard

Greetings from Novi Sad: the Town Hall Among Four Views, 1898

by August 1898 · postcard

Wagons and Vendors Crowd the Main Street

1900 · postcard

The Elizabeth Hotel and Town Hall, with a figure waving

by November 1900 · postcard

The Town Hall, with a crowd gathered outside

by September 1900 · postcard

A lamp standard in the foreground

1900s

The main square and the Catholic church

1900s

The town hall across the square

1900–1918

Franz Joseph Square, an Ornamental Lamp in the Foreground

by June 1902 · postcard

Three views: the Theatre, the post office and the Town Hall

by January 1902 · postcard

The Elizabeth Hotel, with a market in the square

by April 1902 · postcard

A Crowd Before the Town Hall, with Horse Cabs

by September 1902 · postcard

The Main Square, Novi Sad, a Second Spire in the Distance, 1902

by September 1902 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street, Close Beneath the Church Tower, 1903

by August 1903 · postcard

Horse Cabs and Market Stalls in the Main Square, 1905

1905

Town Hall Avenue With a Letter Written Across the Sky, 1905

by August 1905 · postcard

The Main Square, Novi Sad, 1906

by November 1906 · postcard

Tinted View Down the Avenue Toward the Clock Tower, 1908

by July 1908 · postcard

The Trinity column across the square

1910

The Holy Trinity Column in Close-Up, with a Crowd at Its Base

1910s

The Town Hall and fiacres on Liberation Square

c. 1911–1930

The column beside the town hall

1911–1935

Franz Joseph Square, the Town Hall and the Trinity Column, 1912

1912

Franz Joseph Square in Colour, a Tram by the Town Hall

1914 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street and the Town Hall

by October 1914 · postcard

The Town Hall by moonlight, Novi Sad, by December 1914

Elevated View of the Town Hall, Trees in the Foreground

1915. · postcard

Elevated View of the Town Hall, Long Street Receding at Right

by June 1915 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street, a Tram Approaching Beneath the Twin Spires

by August 1916 · postcard

The Name of Mary Church Close Up, Carts in the Square

1917

Tram Tracks Curving Past the Roman Catholic Church

1917

A tram down Kossuth Lajos Street

before 1918 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street, the Menrath Store's Three-Language Sign

by May 1918 · postcard

Main Square, the Town Hall and the Holy Trinity column

1919–1941 · postcard

Three views: a panorama, the old city hall and a department store

1919–1941 · postcard

Novi Sad Views in an Archway Frame, with a Modern Corner

1919–1941 · postcard

Liberation Square and the Town Hall, seen from above

1919–1941 · postcard

Kossuth Lajos Street, the Schulz Shopfront and a Distant Column

1919–1941 · postcard

View of Novi Sad and the city hall

1919–1941 · postcard

Three Views of Novi Sad: Bridge, Town Hall and Boulevard

1919–1941 · postcard

The Town Hall, with a modern hotel nearby

1919–1941 · postcard

The square from the air, Liberty Square, Novi Sad, 1920

Kossuth Lajos Street, Novisad Overprint on a Colour Postcard, 1922

by March 1922 · postcard

The Town Hall, a tram and horse cabs on the square

1929–1939

Lawns laid out before the town hall

1930

The Town Hall, dated by hand in December 1930

10 December 1930

A Seven-Panel Greeting Card from Novi Sad, Centred on the Town Hall

by May 1931 · postcard

Aeroplanes above the shop awnings

1932

Liberation Square and the Town Hall, 9 October 1935

by October 1935 · postcard

Pen Sketch of the Town Hall and Holy Trinity Column, Novi Sad

1935 · postcard

In among the promenading crowd

1935

The Trinity column and the square under reconstruction

1939

A Woman Posing by the Svetozar Miletić Monument, Liberty Square

1940–1960

The Town Hall, with market stalls nearby

by July 1941 · postcard

The Holy Trinity Column with Men Gathered at Its Base, 1941

1941. · postcard

Nine Views: Town Hall, the Klein Corner and Petrovaradin Fortress

by December 1941 · postcard

Vignette View of the Town Hall With Cyclists in Silhouette

by June 1941 · postcard

Six Views: Modern Buildings, the Church Tower and a Wrecked Bridge

by June 1941 · postcard

Elevated View of Liberation Square With Tram Tracks, 1941

1941. · postcard

National Flag Square Seen From Above, Toward the Town Hall

1941–1942 · postcard

Six Views: the Cathedral, City Hall, Banovina Palace and Fortress

1941–1945 · postcard

Greetings from Novi Sad: City Hall, Cathedral and Banovina Palace

1941–1945 · postcard

The widow of István Horthy visits Novi Sad as chief nurse

1941–1945

National Flag Square, with a policeman directing traffic

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad: Banovina Palace, City Hall and Petrovaradin Fortress

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad Details: a Boulevard, City Hall and the Banovina Palace

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad in Nine Views: City Hall, Banovina Palace and Riverfront

1941–1945 · postcard

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

1941–1945 · postcard

Four views: National Flag Square, the post office, Health Palace

1941–1945 · postcard

Liberation Square, Restamped with Its Hungarian Occupation Name

1941–1945 · postcard

Novi Sad: the Cathedral and Banovina Palace, for a Tobacco Outlet

1941–1945 · postcard

The Elizabeth Hotel, Town Hall, Rex Palace, Church and Workers' Home

by September 1942 · postcard

The square and the Name of Mary Church under storm clouds

1942 · postcard

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on National Flag Square, 1942

1942. · postcard

Three Views: Town Hall Square, a Pharmacy Corner and the River

by March 1942 · postcard

Four Views: Town Hall Square, a Modern Tower and the Agraria Block

by August 1942 · postcard

Nine Views: Town Hall, a Colonnaded Building and the Fortress

by August 1943 · postcard

Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on the Town Hall, 1944

by February 1944 · postcard

Four Views: Town Hall, a Tower, the Fortress and a Building Marked V

by June 1944 · postcard

A Tram Bound for the Danube Quay

1950s

Narodni Magazin and Jugofilatelija

1958-1965

Narodni Magazin on Kralja Aleksandra Street

1960-1963

The Town Hall past the tailor's sign

1970s

About this place

The Town Hall, still known in Novi Sad as the Magistrat, stands on Trg slobode opposite the Catholic church and has housed the city government for more than a century. The office dates from 1748, when the settlement then called the Petrovaradin Trench was raised to a free royal city, but for its first century and a half the magistracy rented one building after another around the town. Where the new house should stand was fought over: Svetozar Miletić and his supporters wanted it in the quarter where the Serbs lived, the Catholics wanted it on the main square facing their church, and the Catholics won. György Molnár, who took no fee for the work, revised his plans several times and looked partly to the town hall at Graz; Karl Lerer and Jožef Cocek built it between 1893 and 1895. It is a neo-Renaissance palace on a rectangular plan with a dome at each corner and a balconied tower over the centre, its front carrying allegorical figures of Greek goddesses by the Novi Sad sculptor Julije Anika and its ceremonial hall painted by Pavle Ružička. The tower once held the fire bell Matilda, which was melted down in the war.