# Bridge Command at the Novi Sad to Petrovaradin Crossing

Seven men stand on the cobbles outside a low guardhouse with a deep tiled roof at the Danube crossing. Most are Austro-Hungarian soldiers in greatcoats and field caps, one keeps watch at the left with his rifle, and a civilian in a dark fur cap stands at the right. A painted board above them reads BRÜCKENKOMMANDO, bridge command, beneath a smaller line naming the fortress command, and printed notices are pasted on the wall and on the door frame beside it. A long wooden bench and a trestle table run across the front of the building. The road crossing between the two towns was still the pontoon bridge at this date: the Franz Joseph bridge of 1883 carried the railway, and the first permanent road bridge did not open until 1928.

- Date: 1914
- Place: [Pontoon Bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/s/ponton/index.md)
- Kind: photo
- Lettering on the object: K.u.K. FESTUNGSKOMMANDO / BRÜCKENKOMMANDO / Brückenkommando an der Brücke, die von Neusatz nach Peterwardein hinüberführt.
- Lettering in English: Imperial and Royal Fortress Command / Bridge Command / Bridge command at the bridge leading over from Neusatz to Peterwardein.
- Made by: Eduard Frankl (photographer)
- Source: Public online source
- Credit: Eduard Frankl
- Licence: Public domain
- Image: https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/320f33ad3672/view.jpg
- Page: https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/320f33ad3672/

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