The church shows its domed tower and twin west spires, the walls heavily grown over with creeper. The caption is German alone, with neither Hungarian nor Serbian on the card, and it gives the church its German dedication and locates it by the German name of the fortress town.
About this place
The pilgrimage church of Our Lady of the Snows stands at Tekije, on the road from Petrovaradin to Sremski Karlovci. Its name comes from the tekke, a dervish lodge, that the Ottomans built here in the sixteenth century beside a wooden mosque; the Jesuits later turned the abandoned mosque into a chapel. Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army at Vezirac on 5 August 1716, the feast of Our Lady of the Snows, and gave the chapel a picture of the Virgin and Child, and the church has borne that dedication since. It was enlarged at the expense of the family of Count Siegfried Breuner, executed by the Ottomans on the day of the battle, and again by the Jesuits in 1754. Its present form dates from 1881, when the abbot Ilija Okrugić had it rebuilt and enlarged to plans by the Zagreb architect Hermann Bollé. Its great pilgrimage falls on 5 August. This archive's postcards show its twin west towers and the domed drum at its rear.
On the card
Maria Schnee bei Peterwardein
- Date
- 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.22811, 19.89659
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1482 × 1060 px
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