1942.Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress, Seen from Novi Sad, with a Boat Moored Below
Petrovaradin Fortress's long barracks range along the clifftop, with a smaller clock tower rising partway up the slope and a church visible in the town at left. A boat is moored at the base of the fortress wall by the waterline. The heading, Újvidék, Pétervárad, sits beneath the photograph with a short handwritten line added afterward.
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
Novi Sad, Pétervárad.
- Date
- 1942.
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2401 × 1530 px
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