by June 1901Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin and the Pontoon Bridge, 1901
Petrovaradin Fortress with its pontoon bridge, boats supporting the plank roadway across the Danube, a permanent truss bridge visible further downstream. Captioned 'Petervarad a hajo hiddal' (Petrovaradin with the pontoon bridge). The publisher's credit down the left edge names Herger's department store of Ujvidek, and a handwritten Hungarian letter fills the sky and margins, signed Vari Rezso, written from Budapest on 28 June 1901.
Published by Ágoston Herger
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 a hajó híddal. / Peterwardein mit der Schiffbrücke. / Herger áruház levelezőlap, kiadóhivatalából, Ujvidéken. / Budapest, 1901. junius 28. / Vári Rezső, VIII. József u. 20. II. 11.
Petrovaradin with the pontoon bridge. Postcard from the publishing office of the Herger department store, Novi Sad. Written in Budapest, 28 June 1901, signed Vari Rezso of VIII Jozsef Street 20.
- Date
- by June 1901
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2299 × 1479 px
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