A hand-coloured view from the Novi Sad bank straight across the Danube. Petrovaradin fortress stands on its grey rock with the long barrack block and the clock tower above, the curtain wall of the lower town running along the water below and an earth causeway sloping to the shore at the left. Villagers in coloured folk dress gather on the sandbank in the foreground with casks and a cartwheel, while a timber raft carrying raftsmen drifts midstream, a laden boat is poled at the right and a skiff crosses below. The caption reads "PETERWARDEIN.", with "Gez. v. Th. Ender." at the lower left and "Gest. v. Sands." at the lower right.
Drawn by Thomas Ender · Engraved by Sands
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
Gez. v. Th. Ender. / PETERWARDEIN. / Gest. v Sands.
Drawn by Th. Ender. Peterwardein. Engraved by Sands.
- Date
- 1840
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National Library of Serbia, Danube collection
- Credit
- National Library of Serbia
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1592 × 1193 px
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