A pen and wash manuscript plan signed Desbordes, its French title recording the battle given between Pestervaradin and Carlowits and the victory over the Turks by the imperial army under Prince Eugene of Savoy on 5 August 1716. Peterwaradin, Ratzenstatt, Schwabendorf and Cameniz are lettered on the ground, with a brasserie and a tuillerie beside Kamenica, two ponts de bateaux over the Danube and a Fort du Pont guarding the crossing. The Turkish camp is drawn tent by tent in rows above Carlowitz with the Grand Vizier's tent at its head, and the chapel of the 1699 peace stands on the slope behind.
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
Desbordea / Passe du camp / Ratzenstatt / Cartier du Roy
Flooded ground. The camp's crossing. Ratzenstadt, the Serb town. The King's quarter.
- Date
- 1716
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Europeana /9200517/ark__12148_btv1b55004150h
- Credit
- National Library of France via Europeana
- Licence
- No copyright, other legal restrictions
- Size
- 5713 × 5671 px
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