1941–1944Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress beyond the Broken Railway Bridge
The last standing span of the railway bridge juts out from the Novi Sad bank on the left, and beyond it only bare piers cross the Danube toward the Petrovaradin fortress, whose long barracks run along the hilltop above the town. The bridge was blown up in April 1941, and the caption, Ujvidék-Pétervárad, in Hungarian alone, belongs to the occupation that followed.
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
Újvidék Pétervárad
- Date
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2368 × 1514 px
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