1899Petrovaradin
A Message from Petrovaradin on Novi Sad's Newest Excursion Spot
A steamboat and rowboats crowd the pontoon bridge below the Petrovaradin fortress and its church tower. The sender has written a Hungarian message directly across the sky of the card, addressed to Marika, describing this as the newest and, in the writer's opinion, most beautiful excursion spot near Ujvidek. The message appears to carry the date 1899, and the message being written on the picture side rather than a divided back is consistent with a card from that period. The publisher's imprint names Ignaz Urban of Neusatz.
Published by Ignác Urbán
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 Pétervárad vár
- Date
- 1899
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2360 × 1506 px
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