1920–1929The Novi Sad Gate
The Water Gate, Petrovaradin
The Water Gate at Petrovaradin, known also as the Danube Gate and as Nepomuk's Gate, and locally as Briksanac. It came down between 1923 and 1925, along with the Danube harbour works, to clear the ground for the Prince Tomislav bridge, built to a plan by the engineer Nenad Lancos. The bridge 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
- Size
- 960 × 723 px
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