18th centuryPetrovaradin Fortress
Hand-coloured plan of Petrovaradin fortress and the Danube pontoon bridge
A hand-coloured manuscript plan of the fortress on its rock, with Donaustrohm lettered in the water above and below it. The keyed legend names the Wasserstadt, the castle standing on the rock a hundred and fifty feet high, a new well cut into the stone, the commandant's house, the magazines and the barracks, works that stand in bare earth only, and newly staked-out outworks; the last entry marks the spot for a cistern to be fed by spring water led two thousand five hundred paces. A bridge of boats crosses to a star-shaped bridgehead redoubt on the Novi Sad bank, with a second detached work downstream. The scale is given in Viennese fathoms.
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 von PETERWARADEIN. 1. die Wasserstadt. 2. das Schloss auf dem Felsen gelegen 150. Schuh hoch. 3. Ein neuer Brunn so in Felsen gehauen. 4. Comandanten Haus. 5. Magazins. 6. die Wercke so zwar gebauet stehen aber nur von bloser Erden. 7. die neuen abgesteckten Aussenwercke. 8. Casarmes. 9. Orth, wo eine Cisterne angeleget werden soll darein lebendig Wasser 2500 Schritt weit geleitet wird. Scala von 400 Wienerischen Klafftern. The river is lettered DONAU STROHM above and below the rock.
Plan of Peterwaradein. The key names the water town; the castle on the rock, 150 shoe high; a new well cut into the rock; the commandant's house; the magazines; works that are built but stand in bare earth only; the newly staked-out outworks; the barracks; and the spot where a cistern is to be laid, spring water to be led to it 2,500 paces. The scale is 400 Viennese fathoms.
- Date
- 18th century
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Europeana /188/item_4GNV6J2NLE6I3BG45C6OBVXGW7OCBPNC
- Credit
- Deutsche Fotothek via Europeana
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1163 × 1600 px
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