A horse drawn carriage and pedestrians cross the pontoon bridge toward the fortress hill on this Gruss aus der Festung Peterwardein card, published by Josef Schindler of Neusatz. Printed text recalls Prince Eugene of Savoy's 1716 victory over the Ottomans at the fortress. That 1716 date belongs to the battle being commemorated, not to when the card itself was printed.
Published by Josef Schindler
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
Gruss aus der Festung Peterwardein
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2361 × 1559 px
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