Petrovaradin Fortress and its new bridge over the Danube, a steel truss span reaching from the near bank to the fortress's barracks and church spire on the ridge above. Captioned twice, in Cyrillic and Latin, 'Grad Petrovaradin sa novim mostom' (Petrovaradin Fortress with the new bridge). The card is dated within two weeks of Hungary's April 1941 occupation of Backa.
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
НОВИ САД - NOVI SAD / Град Петроварадин са новим мостом / Grad Petrovaradin sa novim mostom
Novi Sad. Petrovaradin Fortress with the new bridge.
- Date
- by April 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2393 × 1546 px
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