1905.Petrovaradin
A Paddle Steamer Crowded With Passengers by the Pontoon Bridge
A paddle steamer crowded with passengers passes before Petrovaradin Fortress, the pontoon bridge and small boats below the ramparts. Captioned 'Petervarad var, Grad Petrovaradin'. A handwritten note across the sky is signed 'Csokol Jani' (Kisses, Jani), and the publisher's credit at lower right names J. Singer, court photographer, of Ujvidek.
Published by Josef Singer
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 vár Grad Petrovaradin
- Date
- 1905.
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2376 × 1514 px
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