by April 1918Petrovaradin
A paddle steamer and the pontoon bridge at Petrovaradin
A paddle steamer crowded with passengers crosses before the pontoon bridge at Petrovaradin, its line of small boats stretching to the far bank where the fortress and a church rise above the trees. Captioned 'Petervarad var, Festung Peterwardein', dated in ink 1918.
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
Pétervárad vár
- Date
- by April 1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2289 × 1496 px
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