Trees in the foreground screen a view of the bridge to Petrovaradin, its two arched truss spans with curved top chords reaching across the Danube. On the plateau across the water the long barrack ranges run along the crest with the fortress clock tower at their end. At the right stands the Workers' Home, built in 1930 and 1931 to Dragiša Brašovan's design, its stair tower rising in banded courses beside a front with a round window high in the gable. The heading names the city in both Serbian scripts and in no other language, and the bridge still standing puts the view no later than 1941.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
The bridge beyond the park trees
- Date
- 1931–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1154 × 720 px
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