1941–1944Petrovaradin
The demolished road bridge between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin
Twisted girders and leaning lamp standards are all that remain of the road bridge across the Danube, its wreckage sagging into the water in front of the Petrovaradin fortress, and onlookers pick through the debris on the bank. The Hungarian caption calls it the blown-up road bridge: the Prince Tomislav bridge, which Yugoslav forces blew up in April 1941, and the card was printed in Budapest during the Hungarian occupation that followed.
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
Újvidék-Pétervárad. A felrobbantott közúti híd
- Date
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2049 × 1324 px
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