Postal payment order
1917Liberty Square
A novelty card printed to imitate a Hungarian postal money order, headed POSTA-UTALVÁNY with the counterfoil marked SZELVÉNY and the sum entered as 1000 K. On the line for the amount in words the sender has written the same greeting three times over, Ezer üdvözlet, Tausend Grüsse and Хиљаду поздрава. The stamps are cancelled with datestamps lettered Ujvidék on one side and Нови Сад on the other, a bilingual town postmark.
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.
- Date
- 1917
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1624 × 1027 px