1917Petrovaradin
Main Street, Petrovaradin, on a Central Powers wartime postcard
A postcard headed Pétervárad vár, Grad Petrovaradin, Festung Peterwardein and Glavna ulica, Hauptgasse carries three inset portraits of military leaders, one in a fez, at the top of the card. Below, the street view looks down a cobbled lane between two rows of tile-roofed houses converging toward a gated archway in the distance, with pedestrians and handcarts scattered along the roadway. Shopfronts with hanging signs line the ground floors on both sides.
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
Petrovaradin/Pétervárad/Peterwardein
- Date
- 1917
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1674 × 1085 px
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