1688–1918Petrovaradin
Novi Sad and Petrovaradin Fortress, a Mid-19th-Century Engraving
A detailed steel engraving looks across the Danube from a wooded bluff toward Neusatz on the left bank and the fortress of Peterwardein on the right, linked by a low pontoon bridge with a paddle steamer passing beneath it. Two well-dressed figures stand on the rocks in the foreground. The engraving is signed by the artist Ludwig Rohbock and the engravers Gunkel and Kolb, printed by G. G. Lange in Darmstadt and distributed in Pest by Lauffer and Stolp, and titled in Hungarian and German as Ujvidek and Petervarad, Neusatz and the Fortress Peterwardein.
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
Novi Sad in the 19th century / Novi Sad u XIX veku
- Date
- 1688–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Matica Srpska Library
- Credit
- Matica Srpska Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1400 × 944 px
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