Postcard of Maribor through time

Maribor 1897–2020 14 photos of this spot

14 photographs taken at the same spot in Maribor, spanning 1897–2020 — 12 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A postcard view of Maribor from 1897, showing the Styrian city on the Drava River as it appeared under Austro-Hungarian rule at the close of the nineteenth century, when it was one of the larger urban centers in the region.

Postcard of Maribor 1897 A postcard view of Maribor from 1897, showing the Styrian city on the Drava River as it appeared under Austro-Hungarian rule at the close of the nineteenth century, when it was one of the larger urban centers in the region.

Postcard of Maribor 1905 A 1905 postcard depicting Maribor, then a growing industrial and administrative center in the Austro-Hungarian province of Styria, sited where the Drava River flows out of the surrounding hills.

Postcard of Maribor by 1905 Another postcard of Maribor from around 1905, showing the Styrian city along the Drava River before the upheavals of the twentieth century would redraw the borders of Central Europe.

Postcard of Maribor by 1905 This postcard, dated to around 1905, offers a further view of Maribor, a Drava River city that was among the larger urban centers of Austro-Hungarian Styria and a hub for regional trade.

Postcard of Maribor by 1905 A view of Maribor from around 1905, part of a series of postcards documenting the city while it remained under Austro-Hungarian administration, decades before it became part of Slovenia.

Postcard of Maribor 1906 A 1906 postcard of Maribor, capturing the city during a period of steady growth within Austria-Hungary's Styria province, its streets lined with buildings from the late Habsburg era.

Postcard of Maribor 1906 This 1906 postcard offers another view of Maribor, the Styrian city on the Drava that would later become Slovenia's second-largest city after the empire's dissolution.

Postcard of Maribor by 1907 A postcard of Maribor dated to around 1907, depicting the Styrian city during the years before the First World War would reshape the region and dissolve the empire it belonged to.

Postcard of Maribor 1909 Maribor is depicted in this 1909 postcard, capturing the Styrian city shortly before the First World War would transform Central Europe and, within a decade, redraw its borders.

Postcard of Maribor 1911 A 1911 postcard of Maribor, showing the Styrian city on the eve of the changes that the First World War would soon bring to Central Europe and to Austria-Hungary itself.

Postcard of Maribor 1911 This second 1911 postcard offers another view of Maribor, then part of Austria-Hungary's Styria province along the Drava River, a few years before the empire's collapse.

EU: Poslovna zgrada Elektrokovina, Maribor, Slovenija (1963) 1963 Photographed in 1963, this image shows the business premises of Elektrokovina, an electrical engineering enterprise based in Maribor, Slovenia, a city on the Drava river long associated with industry and manufacturing.

Maribor - trg revolucije 2013 Trg revolucije, or Revolution Square, sits in the center of Maribor, Slovenia's second-largest city, and carries a name dating back to the socialist Yugoslav era.

Drava river and Old bridge, Maribor Slovenia 2020 The Drava river and its old bridge in Maribor, Slovenia, appear in this 2020 photograph; Maribor is the country's second-largest city.