1869Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress, seen from the riverbank
A page from a printed Danube Album, men standing on a wooden landing stage with mast-like poles in the foreground and the fortress's long barracks ranged along the ridge behind, a small town nested at its foot. Credited to Kaiser's photographic art press in Vienna, reprint rights reserved. Dated 1869.
Photographed by Amand Helm
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
Pétervárad, a vár látképe
- Date
- 1869
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Hungarian National Museum
- Credit
- Hungarian National Museum / Helm, Amand (1831-1893)
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 627 × 478 px
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