The road bridge lies broken across the Danube, one span driven down into the water on the left and the deck on the right tipped up at a steep angle, with two of its ornamental lamp pylons still upright on the tilted roadway. Men in coats and hats stand on the stony foreshore below, looking up at the wreck. Across the river the long barrack ranges of the Petrovaradin fortress run along the ridge above the ramparts, and the tower of the lower town's monastery church rises among the roofs on the left.
About this place
The Prince Tomislav bridge was the first permanent road bridge over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin. It was built between 1921 and 1928, and it opened a boulevard along which Novi Sad grew down to the river and tied the city to Petrovaradin on the far bank. The Water Gate of the Petrovaradin lower town and the Danube fortifications were pulled down in the early 1920s to clear the ground for it. Yugoslav forces mined the bridge in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944; the replacement raised on the same crossing after the war was named for Marshal Tito. In photographs it is told apart from the town’s other crossings by the spiked finials along its truss, a silhouette that recalls the bridges of Budapest.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1606 × 966 px
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