about 1760Petrovaradin Fortress
The Machine That Raised Danube Water to the Upper Fortress, Plan and Profile
A working drawing of the water-raising engine put into service at Petrovaradin in 1758 and 1759, laid out across a single wide sheet with a numbered key of thirteen parts. It shows the great drive wheel and its gearing, the pressure cylinders in section with their brass valves, an elevation of the pump house, and a profile cut through the fortress works rising from the water, with the plan of the upper works and its cistern at the right. The key records that the water was drawn from a canal-fed well by pumps, settled through three successive tanks, and driven up 18 fathoms of vertical height through lead pipes let into the gallery wall. The wheels were turned by seven prisoners.
Drawn by Zittl
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
Plan und Profil der Anno 1758/9 in Stand gebrachten Petterwardeiner Wasser Druck Machine von der Donau in die obere Festung
Plan and profile of the Peterwardein water pressure machine, brought into service in 1758/9, from the Danube into the upper fortress
- Date
- about 1760
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Austrian National Library
- Credit
- Austrian National Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 24024 × 11425 px
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