by November 1899Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress, with the pontoon and railway bridges
Petrovaradin Fortress with both its crossings: a pontoon bridge in the foreground, pedestrians and a rowboat on the water, and a permanent railway truss bridge further along the far bank. Captioned 'Petervarad a hajo hiddal, Petervardein mit der Schiffbrucke'. The publisher's imprint at the left edge names Herger's department store of Ujvidek, and the card is dated in ink, 3 November 1899.
Published by Ágoston Herger
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 Pétervárad a hajó híddal.– Petervardein mit der Schiffbrücke
- Date
- by November 1899
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2395 × 1546 px
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