Men in uniform stand on a wooden ferry ramp at the river's edge, a military truck and a car waiting behind them, the truck's plate reading WH 738-764, a German army registration. Across the Danube, Petrovaradin Fortress rises on the hill, its ramparts and white barracks buildings visible above the slope.
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.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 5383 × 3449 px
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