1896–1918Petrovaradin
The Pontoon Bridge at Petrovaradin, in Silhouette
A long low bridge crosses the Danube in silhouette against the evening sky, with a boat's anchor and prow visible in the foreground and boathouses on the far bank. The postcard's Hungarian and German caption calls it a pontoon bridge, and its publisher, the Hungarian Rotophot Company of Budapest, points to the Austro-Hungarian period.
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
Fahíd a Dunán, Péterváradnál; Pontonbrücke über die Donau bei Pétervárad
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2324 × 1475 px
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