A steel truss bridge crosses the Danube in three spans on tall masonry piers, its central span rising to a shallow arch and its members standing out dark against a pale sky. Beyond it the escarpment of Petrovaradin rises, with the long white ranges of the fortress and its bastions spread along the top and a church tower showing among trees at the left of the bluff. In the foreground the near bank is fringed with trees, and at the right a group of low sheds and a gantry stand on a wharf at the water's edge behind a wire fence.
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
- 1928–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 720 × 425 px
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