The railway tunnel's stone portal at Petrovaradin, a small gatehouse with a ladder propped against its wall beside the track. Two men sit on the rocks below a footbridge crossing the stream in the foreground. Captioned 'Peterváradi vasuti alagut, Eisenbahntunnel in Peterwardein', published by Jozsef Singer, court photographer.
Published by Josef Singer
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
Péterváradi vasuti alagut. / Eisenbahntunel in Peterwardein. / Singer József udvari fényképész kiadása
Petrovaradin railway tunnel. Published by Jozsef Singer, court photographer.
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2704 × 1759 px
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