by July 1941Petrovaradin
The road bridge to Petrovaradin, with the fortress below
The steel truss arches overhead in close-up, with Petrovaradin Fortress's ramparts and barracks spread across the hill directly beneath the span and a second, lower bridge visible further back across the water, so road and rail crossings existed side by side by this date. The heading, Ujvidék-Pétervárad, Közúti híd, names the road bridge between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin.
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. Közúti híd
- Date
- by July 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2315 × 1485 px
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