circa 1720Petrovaradin Fortress
Designation of the Battle Fought Between Peterwardein and Carlowitz, 5 August 1716
A hand-coloured plan of the 1716 battle at about one to twenty thousand, engraved by Corvinus after Blodner and published by Jeremias Wolff at Augsburg. The fortress is labelled on the promontory inside the Danube bend, with its town and castle named separately, two boat bridges drawn across the river and the Croat village and Serb town lettered on the Backa bank. Kamenitz and the road to Futak are named at the edges. A battle vignette runs along the foot of the sheet, and troop blocks are ruled across the ground between the fortress and Karlovci.
Surveyed by Cyriacus Blödner · Engraved by Corvinus · Published by Jeremias Wolff
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
Eigentliche Designation Der Bataille welche den 5. August A. 1716 zwischen Peterwardein und Carlowiz vorgegangen. PETERWARDEIN, Statt, Schloss. 2 Schiff-Brucken. Croaten Dorff. Ratzenstadt. Donau. Kamenitz. Weg nach Futack.
A true designation of the battle which took place on 5 August 1716 between Peterwardein and Carlowitz. Peterwardein, town and castle. Two boat bridges. Croat village. Serb town. Danube. Kamenitz. Road to Futak.
- Date
- circa 1720
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Credit
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 3681 × 5000 px
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