by July 1900Petrovaradin
The Railway Bridge and Tunnel Below Petrovaradin Fortress, 1900
The railway bridge crosses diagonally toward Petrovaradin Fortress, its tracks vanishing into a dark tunnel mouth cut into the base of the hill. A pale moon hangs in the sky at upper left. Captioned 'Petervarad-var, Festung Peterwardein', dated in ink 13 July 1900, published by Ignaz Urban.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
The town on the right bank of the Danube facing Novi Sad, gathered around its great fortress. A Roman fortress called Cusum stood here in the 1st century, and the medieval town is first recorded as Peturwarod (Pétervárad) in 1237. The Ottomans took it after a two-week siege in 1526, and it passed definitively to the Habsburgs in the 1690s, becoming the garrison town of Peterwardein; Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army beneath its walls in 1716. The Baroque lower town (Podgrađe) still stands under the fortress walls. Long administered separately from Novi Sad, Petrovaradin lost its last separate municipal status when the city statute of March 2019 merged it fully into the City of Novi Sad.
On the card
Pétervárad; Vár
- Date
- by July 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2319 × 1548 px
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