A balustraded terrace leads up to the fortress buildings and a small clock tower, with a portrait inset at the corner showing a mustached officer in Austro-Hungarian uniform with a peaked cap and a chest full of decorations. The trilingual German, Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian caption carries no Cyrillic. The uniformed portrait places this firmly within the Austro-Hungarian period.
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
Péterváradi vár
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2296 × 1494 px
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