A small armoured river gunboat runs downstream on open water, throwing a low wake, seen broadside from another vessel. A light awning frame stands over the after deck and a mast forward carries a large cylindrical day mark. Crewmen are ranged along the deck and at the rail, several in peaked caps, one standing alone at the stern beside the ensign staff, and a numeral is painted low on the hull amidships. In the right distance the wooded bluff of Petrovaradin rises with the fortress along its crest and the clock tower standing clear against the sky, and the low silhouette of a bridge crosses the water beneath it.
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
Dunai Monitor Pétervárad elött Donau-Monitor vor Pétervárad.
Danube monitor before Petrovaradin
- Date
- 1914–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 720 × 435 px
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