by September 1907Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress Across the River, September 1907
The handwritten letter is a warm note home, Édes Margitkám, my sweet Margitka, telling her the writer is not surprised she's hearing from Novi Sad, having now been here a week and feeling very well, signed with initials only. The fortress fills the hill across the water, its own small clock tower visible among the ramparts, with a floating pontoon bridge at the waterline and a second, smaller church tower visible in the town at the far left.
Published by Breuer R. és Tsa
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 látképe
- Date
- by September 1907
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2338 × 1530 px
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