A three-part card opens on a steel truss bridge spanning the Danube toward Petrovaradin fortress on its hill, then shows two modern boulevards below, one lined with new multi-story buildings under a rooftop statue, the other busy with tram tracks and shops leading toward twin church spires. The publisher's imprint is shared with older cards, but the permanent bridge and the modern buildings place these views later than that imprint alone would suggest.
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
Újvidék Látkép. Pétervárad vára
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2347 × 1493 px
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