Petrovaradin seen across the Danube, the fortress spread along the top of its bluff with the barracks ranges and the clock tower above the escarpment. A steel truss bridge crosses the river in front of it, a tall portal frame carrying the main span and a long run of shorter trusses leading back to the near bank on low piers. A church spire rises from the town at the foot of the hill, a small river steamer is tied up below the bridge and a floating landing stage lies along the shore at the left. The road bridge stands complete and undamaged, which puts the view between its opening in 1928 and its destruction in 1941.
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.
- Date
- 1928–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- State Archives of Baden-Württemberg
- Credit
- State Archives of Baden-Württemberg
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Size
- 838 × 556 px
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