by December 1901Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress and the Railway Bridge, Rowboats Below
Petrovaradin Fortress across the Danube, boats moored at the water's edge in the foreground. A handwritten Hungarian Christmas greeting fills the lower half, 'Boldog karacsonyi unnepeket kivan szerető...' (Wishing happy Christmas holidays, from your loving...), dated 'Pétervárad, 22 December 1901' and published by August Herger of Ujvidek.
Published by Ágoston Herger
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. / Herger Ágoston levelező-lap kiadóhivatalából Ujvidék.
Pétervárad. From the postcard publishing office of Ágoston Herger, Novi Sad.
- Date
- by December 1901
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2394 × 1530 px
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