The Petrovaradin fortress and its walls rise above the Danube, seen from across the water with a line of trees along the near bank. A pontoon bridge of small linked boats crosses the river in the foreground, carrying a plank roadway. The card carries no caption or date.
Photographed by János Eilingsfeld
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
Pétervárad látképe a Duna felől, előtérben egy hajóhíddal
- Date
- 1868–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Janus Pannonius Museum
- Credit
- Janus Pannonius Museum / Eilingsfeld János
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 800 × 571 px
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