Barges and other river craft lie moored closely along a low natural bank, a small steam vessel among them, with gangways and simple cargo-handling structures reaching between the vessels and the shore. A clinker-built rowing boat rests on the bank in the foreground and a horse-drawn cart marked 20 stands at right. The card is captioned in Hungarian and German alone, naming the harbour of Ujvidék and of Neusatz, with no South Slavic version. Novi Sad kept a permanent Danube landing north of Mostobran through the nineteenth century, and river freight mattered there until a purpose-built freight port opened on the Mali Stapar to Novi Sad canal, the Franz Joseph Canal, in 1910. The broad open water and the distant wooded far bank suit the Danube waterfront rather than the narrower canal harbour, though no fixed landmark in the frame settles which stretch of the bank this is.
About this place
The Novi Sad bank of the Danube, the embankment walk between the bridges. It is where the town meets its river: steamers tied up along it, the ferry and later the pontoon crossing landed on it, and it is the vantage point for most photographs looking across to the Petrovaradin cliff. Today the embankment carries more than one name along its length, Beogradski kej and Kej zrtava racije among them, and this entry holds the general name for the whole walk.
On the card
UJVIDÉK - Kikötő. / NEUSATZ - Hafen
Ujvidék, the harbour. Neusatz, the harbour.
- Date
- c. 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25230, 19.85640
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1578 × 982 px
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