1896–1918Petrovaradin
An Elevated View Down Jelačić Street, Inside Petrovaradin Fortress
Jelacicdeva ulica (Jelacic Street) inside Petrovaradin Fortress, an elevated view down the long straight street toward a gate arch in the distance, low tiled roofs on both sides. Children and pedestrians are scattered along the road. Captioned in Serbian, Hungarian and German for the fortress, and Serbian and German for the street.
About this place
The town on the right bank of the Danube facing Novi Sad, gathered around its great fortress. A Roman fortress called Cusum stood here in the 1st century, and the medieval town is first recorded as Peturwarod (Pétervárad) in 1237. The Ottomans took it after a two-week siege in 1526, and it passed definitively to the Habsburgs in the 1690s, becoming the garrison town of Peterwardein; Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army beneath its walls in 1716. The Baroque lower town (Podgrađe) still stands under the fortress walls. Long administered separately from Novi Sad, Petrovaradin lost its last separate municipal status when the city statute of March 2019 merged it fully into the City of Novi Sad.
On the card
Pétervárad vár. Jelaciceva ulica
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2315 × 1496 px
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