Multiple sections of the wrecked road bridge lie plunged into the river at broken angles, twisted girders reaching down to the water. Two ornamental lamp pylons still stand upright amid the wreckage, and the cast 1928 date roundel shows again on a nearby girder. Buildings line the far bank, which the donor's caption places at Petrovaradin.
About this place
The Prince Tomislav bridge was the first permanent road bridge over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin. It was built between 1921 and 1928, and it opened a boulevard along which Novi Sad grew down to the river and tied the city to Petrovaradin on the far bank. The Water Gate of the Petrovaradin lower town and the Danube fortifications were pulled down in the early 1920s to clear the ground for it. Yugoslav forces mined the bridge in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944; the replacement raised on the same crossing after the war was named for Marshal Tito. In photographs it is told apart from the town’s other crossings by the spiked finials along its truss, a silhouette that recalls the bridges of Budapest.
On the card
1928
The year 1928, cast in relief on a circular plate on the bridge girder.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Martin Djemil
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 3831 × 2802 px
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