The steel superstructure of the Prince Tomislav Bridge reaches half way across a wide flooded foreshore, a crane standing on the end of the girders and timber staging below them. Alone on the bank at the right stands the small Baroque chapel of St John of Nepomuk, its bell tower under an onion dome and a low walled range beside it, with reeds and floodwater in the foreground. The bridge, paid for from German war reparations, opened to traffic on 20 May 1928, and the chapel was pulled down for its approaches.
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
- 1923
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2138 × 1375 px
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