A hand-drawn and hand-coloured plan of Petrovaradin Fortress, signed at the lower right by Tomerlin, an engineer conductor in the imperial fortification service. The sheet shows the Upper Fortress on its rock, the hornwork and the Water Town below, with every bastion lettered and named in the cartouche key, and a compass rose and scale bar on the open ground to the right. Along the foot runs a panorama of the fortress as seen from the Neusatz bank. The key also records the pressure machine that lifted Danube water into the fortress cistern. It is drawn on silk, with the crimson border and its hand-stitched edge showing on all four sides, and it is oriented east, so the Danube runs across the sheet rather than down it.
Drawn by Tomerlin
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
PLAN Von der KAŸSERLICHEN, KOENIGLICHEN HAUPT und GRANITZ-FESTUNG PETERWARDEIN. Explication. A. Obere Festung: I. St. Leopoldi, II. St. Innocenti, III. St. Josephi Bastionen, IV. Ober und Unter Louis, V. St. Theresia Bastionen, VI. Wasser Cisterne, worein das Donau Wasser mittelst der Maschine getrieben wird. B. Hornwerk: I. St. Caroli, II. St. Elisabethe Bastionen [...]. C. Wasser-Stadt: I. St. Benedicti, II. St. Francisci, III. St. Theresia, IV. St. Josephi, V. St. Caroli Bastionen [...]. / DONAU STROM / DONAU ARM / Prospect der Vestung PETERWARDEIN, wie solche von der Stadt Seite gegen die Neu-Stadt Neusatz anzusehen ist / Tomerlin Ing. Conducteur
Plan of the imperial and royal principal and frontier fortress of Peterwardein. Key. A. Upper fortress: the St Leopold, St Innocent and St Joseph bastions, the Upper and Lower Louis and St Theresa bastions, and the water cistern into which Danube water is driven by the machine. B. Hornwork: the St Charles and St Elisabeth bastions. C. Water Town: the St Benedict, St Francis, St Theresa, St Joseph and St Charles bastions. / The Danube / View of the fortress of Peterwardein as it is seen from the town side toward the new town of Neusatz. / Tomerlin, engineer conductor.
- Date
- 1760
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Austrian National Library
- Credit
- Austrian National Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 4928 × 4176 px
Open on the full map ›