The Water Gate, Petrovaradin
1920–1929The Novi Sad Gate
Petrovaradin.The Water Gate, also known as the Danube or Nepomuk's Gate (Brikšanac).The Danube port with the other Danube fortress was demolished in 1923-1925 because of construction the Prince Tomislav bridge, based on plan by engineer Nenad Lancoš.The bridge was opened in 1928.
About this place
The Novi Sad Gate was one of the three main gates of the lower town below the Petrovaradin fortress, and the one named for the town across the Danube. It was also called the Water Gate, the Danube Gate and Nepomuk's Gate. It was pulled down in the early 1920s along with the Danube fortifications, to clear the ground for the bridge between Petrovaradin and Novi Sad that was built between 1921 and 1928 and named for Prince Tomislav; this archive's catalogue dates the demolition to 1923 to 1925 and credits the bridge plan to the engineer Nenad Lancoš. Two of the three gates survive, among them the Belgrade Gate of 1753, and in 2019 the city projected an image of the vanished gate onto its site as part of the European Capital of Culture programme.
- Date
- 1920–1929
- Coordinates
- 45.25493, 19.86031
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 960 × 723 px
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