The Petrovaradin fortress buildings stretch along the hilltop above its retaining walls, with a small clock tower visible partway up the slope. Several figures wade near a low wall at the water's edge in the foreground. The trilingual German, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian caption, with no Cyrillic, and the Milan Ivković Ujvidek publisher imprint match the pattern of other Austro-Hungarian era cards of this fortress in the batch.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
Pétervárad-vár Festung Peterwardein – Grad Petovaradin
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2370 × 1530 px
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