1868Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin from the Danube, a Printed Album Page, 1868
A page from a printed Danube Album: a church spire and low buildings at the foot of the hill, the fortress ranged along the ridge above, and a group of men on a timber raft in the foreground. Credited to Helm's photographic art press in Vienna, reprint rights reserved. Dated 1868.
Photographed by Amand Helm · Published 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
DONAU-ALBUM. / PETERWARDEIN. / Helm's phot. Kunstverlag, Wien. / Nachdruck vorbehalten.
Danube Album. Peterwardein. Helm's photographic art publishing house, Vienna. Reproduction reserved.
- Date
- 1868
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- The Albertina Museum
- Credit
- The Albertina Museum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1200 × 797 px
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