A painting of the battle fought before Petrovaradin in 1716. Winged figures of Fame and Victory fly out of the smoke at the upper left, trumpets sounding, while below them the imperial entrenched camp and the long lines of both armies stretch back across the plain to the horizon. In the foreground the fighting is hand to hand, a commander on a white horse at the centre directing it, with the Ottoman dead and their standards fallen across the ground before him.
Painted by Jan van Huchtenburg
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
...A PRŒL. SALANKEMEN... / ...AUGUSTI 1716
Partially legible: a Latin inscription naming a battle, praelium, at a place reading as Slankamen, and the date August 1716.
- Date
- early eighteenth century
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 7000 × 4718 px
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