Two cards photographed together. The larger names the same bridge twice, in Serbian Cyrillic and in Latin, which is how the town printed after 1918 when Cyrillic returned to official use. A rigid airship crosses the sky above a steel truss bridge, with the skyline behind it. A smaller monochrome card of Dunavska street, its rails set in the roadway, is laid across the lower right.
About this place
The Prince Tomislav bridge was the first permanent road bridge over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin. It was built between 1921 and 1928, and it opened a boulevard along which Novi Sad grew down to the river and tied the city to Petrovaradin on the far bank. The Water Gate of the Petrovaradin lower town and the Danube fortifications were pulled down in the early 1920s to clear the ground for it. Yugoslav forces mined the bridge in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944; the replacement raised on the same crossing after the war was named for Marshal Tito. In photographs it is told apart from the town’s other crossings by the spiked finials along its truss, a silhouette that recalls the bridges of Budapest.
On the card
Нови Сад-Петроварадин / Novi Sad-Petrovaradin / Нови Мост / Novi Most // НОВИ САД / NOVI SAD / ДУНАВСКА УЛИЦА / DUNAVSKA ULICA
- Date
- 1933
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1094 × 583 px
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