Memorial Fountain

The Memorial Fountain at Palić was erected in 1912 as the symbolic culmination of the construction of Palić's landmark buildings and of the City Hall in Subotica, designed by the renowned Hungarian architects Marcell Komor and Dezső Jakab. Today it is a protected cultural monument and one of the most recognisable symbols of Palić. Shaped in the spirit of Hungarian Art Nouveau, the fountain consists of two basins with a trefoil ground plan, with water flowing from relief depictions of a catfish, a wild duck and a coot, gathered around a stone monolith. Its niches now carry a text on the history of Palić, while the verses of the celebrated Hungarian poet Dezső Kosztolányi were once carved in that same place.Over more than a century of its existence, the Memorial Fountain has seen changing fortunes. In the 1960s it was moved in front of the Women's Bathhouse, but in 1981 it was returned to its original location and restored. It was restored again in 1995, and in 2026 it underwent another careful renovation, which brought back its authentic appearance and preserved the value of this precious cultural monument. The renovation also saw the re-inscription of Dezső Kosztolányi's verses, which originally adorned the stone monolith, thereby returning to this historic fountain an important part of its original appearance and cultural identity.In this way, the Memorial Fountain continues to preserve the memory of times past and to pass its story on to future generations.

Then and now

1912

2026

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