The Serbian Commercial Bank
about 1920Zmaj Jovina
Market day at the head of the main street, looking towards the Bishop's Palace. The long fascia on the left carries SRPSKA TRGOVACKA BANKA in Cyrillic, the Serbian Commercial Bank, with a shopfront below it and an advertising column on the pavement. Awnings and a crowd fill the middle distance. On the right stands the Bishop's Palace with the stone cross in front of it, and the apse of the Cathedral Church closes the view. A policeman with a sabre stands in the roadway, and the rails of the horse tram curve across the foreground. No overhead wire runs above the street, and the women's hems clear the ankle, which places the picture in the years after the First World War rather than before it.
About this place
The spine of the old town, running from Liberty Square to the Bishop's Palace. It has been renamed more often than any other street in Novi Sad. It began as the Glavna ulica, the Hauptgasse, was called Magazinski sokak for a period after an uprising, and became Fo utca under the Hungarian administration after 1867 and then Kossuth Lajos utca in the last decades of Austro-Hungarian rule. Between the wars it was Kralja Petra I; it was renamed for Mussolini under the wartime occupation; after the liberation it was Kralja Petra I again, then Marsala Tita, before settling on Zmaj Jovina for the poet Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj. The oldest house on it is number 28, Kod belog lava, built in 1720 and among the first two-storey houses in the town. It is pedestrian today, lined with shops, bookshops and cafes. One caution for anyone dating a picture by its caption: the Kossuth name did not stay attached to this street. Mileticeva, the old Lebarski sokak, carried it during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944, so a Kossuth street postcard has to be dated before it can be placed.
- Date
- about 1920
- Coordinates
- 45.25627, 19.84710
- Size
- 2048 × 1008 px