circa 1850Petrovaradin Fortress
The Fortress of Peterwardein on the Danube in Syrmia, from the Bibliographisches Institut
A working riverside seen from the shingle on the near bank: casks, a crate and a coil of rope lie at the water line, a man in a top hat bends over a bundle, and two women in headscarves sit among wicker baskets in a laden boat. Covered barges are moored alongside under a tall mast and a floating mill rides at the left. Across the water the fortress crowns its height above the lower town of Petrovaradin, with the hills of Fruška Gora receding beyond. A steel engraving issued about 1850 by the Bibliographisches Institut at Hildburghausen as plate CLXXXVIII of a series.
Published by Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen
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
FESTUNG PETERWARDEIN an der DONAU im Sirmien. CLXXXVIII.
The fortress of Peterwardein on the Danube in Syrmia, with the roman plate number 188. The library transcribes the caption as in Sirmien; the plate prints im Sirmien.
- Date
- circa 1850
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Credit
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 3417 × 2601 px
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