1850Petrovaradin
Neusatz in Hungary, from the Bibliographisches Institut
The view looks from the Syrmian side of the Danube across a garden or orchard towards Novi Sad on the far bank, with Petrovaradin Fortress rising at the right. A man and two women stand and sit by a bench near a house among the trees in the foreground, a boat is out on the water, and the ship bridge crosses the river below. The plate is lettered NEUSATZ in UNGARN and numbered DCXXXXII, and it was published in 1850 in the fourteenth volume of Joseph Meyer's Meyer's Universum by the Bibliographisches Institut of Hildburghausen and Amsterdam. THE VIEW ITSELF IS OLDER THAN THE PLATE: it is a reduced derivative of Jakob Alt's lithograph Syrmien. Peterwardein und Neusatz, published by Adolf Friedrich Kunike in 1826, down to the same viewpoint, the same garden and house and the same three figures. So the townscape here is the Novi Sad of the 1820s and must not be read as the city in 1850, which is after the bombardment of 1849.
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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
DCXXXXII. / NEUSATZ in UNGARN / Aus d. Kunstanst. d. Bibliogr. Instit. in Hildbh. / Eigenthum d. Verleger
642. Neusatz in Hungary. From the art-printing establishment of the Bibliographical Institute in Hildburghausen. Property of the publisher.
- Date
- 1850
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Library of Serbia, Danube collection
- Credit
- National Library of Serbia
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 3734 × 2936 px
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