A tinted steel engraving of Petrovaradin seen from the Neusatz bank, the long barrack range along the crest of the rock and the water gate and quay wall below it. A group of figures stands among casks and bales on the near shore, and a ferry crowded with passengers is being rowed across. Drawn by the Viennese landscape painter Thomas Ender, engraved by Sand and published by Hartleben at Pest.
Drawn by Thomas Ender · Engraved by Sand · Published by Hartleben
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
Gez. v. Th. Ender. / Gest. v. Sand. / PETERWARDEIN. / Hartlebens Verlag in Pesth.
Drawn by Th. Ender. / Engraved by Sand. / Peterwardein. / Hartleben's publishing house in Pest.
- Date
- around 1840
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1946 × 1177 px
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