A winter view downriver from the Novi Sad bank, framed by the bare limbs of a large tree that fill the top and left of the frame. The steel bridge runs across the middle distance, a long lattice girder whose top chord rises to a shallow hump over the main span and drops away to either side, carried on piers in the water. To the right of it a low approach stands on a dense row of slender vertical piles, their reflections falling in an unbroken comb across the still water. In the foreground a heavy mass of broken brick and rubble stands on the bank, its facing gone and its core exposed, with a rough path running past it and a line of track or kerbing along the water's edge below. The far bank is flat and leafless.
About this place
The Prince Tomislav bridge was the first permanent road bridge over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin. It was built between 1921 and 1928, and it opened a boulevard along which Novi Sad grew down to the river and tied the city to Petrovaradin on the far bank. The Water Gate of the Petrovaradin lower town and the Danube fortifications were pulled down in the early 1920s to clear the ground for it. Yugoslav forces mined the bridge in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944; the replacement raised on the same crossing after the war was named for Marshal Tito. In photographs it is told apart from the town’s other crossings by the spiked finials along its truss, a silhouette that recalls the bridges of Budapest.
- Date
- 1928–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1153 × 717 px
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