A motor car outside the baths
1910Iodine Spa
Iodine Spa was created in 1897 in the process of drilling an artesian well for the city water supply. The drilling led to the discovery of warm water. A large motor car stands at the kerb on the left and a crowd waits along the awnings, with a bazaar kiosk at the right. Captioned in Hungarian, German and Cyrillic.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
- Date
- 1910
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1200 × 762 px