Two tall rusticated piers with bulbous stone finials stand where the road passes the crenellated wall, with a pedimented classical gate lodge beside them and a line of stone bollards set along the verge. Uniformed men and a horse cart are gathered at the opening. The caption is Hungarian alone, which puts the card before 1918, and it files the gate under the name of the town on the other bank rather than under the fortress it belongs to.
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
Ujvidék - Várkapu
- Date
- 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2357 × 1530 px
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