A small engraved view of Petrovaradin from the water, the barrack range along the rock and the Water Town below. A paddle steamer with a tall funnel lies at the near bank beside a moored sailing barge, a ferry full of people is rowed across at the left, and casks and a tent stand on the shore. The caption is set in Fraktur beneath a ruled frame, in the manner of a plate from a German illustrated book.
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
- mid-nineteenth century
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2113 × 1431 px
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