A winter view across the Danube from a bare earth bank, framed by the trunk and bare limbs of a large tree at the right and thinner branches overhanging from the left. Patches of old snow lie in the hollows of the foreground and the ground runs down to the water past a line of low posts. A long barge with a deck house is moored against the near bank at the left, its bow out into the stream and a mooring line running ashore, with two figures standing on the mud beside it and a shed on the bank above. Across the still water the escarpment of Petrovaradin rises, its bare face broken by terraces, with the ranges of the fortress spread along the crest and the clock tower standing clear at the point. Low buildings run along the waterline beneath it and the whole of it lies reflected in the river.
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.
- Date
- 1928–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1250 × 765 px
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