A paddle steamer with twin funnels is moored on the Danube at Novi Sad, with Petrovaradin Fortress rising on the far bank behind it and its clock tower visible at the left. Large lettering on the fortress escarpment reads STERIJI and, further along, ZORJE, part of the name of the Sterijino pozorje theatre festival held in the city. Two people walk along the near bank in the foreground. The source identifies the moored vessel as the steamer Felszabadulas.
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
STERIJI[NO] [PO]ZORJE | M.H.R.T.
Sterijino pozorje painted in large letters across the fortress rampart above the mooring. The steamer's funnels carry the monogram M.H.R.T.
- Date
- 1965
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Hunyady József
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 5633 × 3649 px
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