Over the city
Liberty Square
A rooftop view over the old pantiled houses to the long streamline block behind them, with the fortress on the skyline. The caption is in Hungarian alone, Újvidék látképe, while the modernist block is a building of the 1930s, so the card belongs to the wartime Hungarian administration.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
- Approximate
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 552 × 346 px