The caption is German alone, with no Serbian or Hungarian, which suits a card of a military staff building issued under the monarchy, and the publisher was Ign. Andres of Peterwardein, a local house. A handwritten message in ink runs right across the picture and out into the margins. The same printed card is held clean and unused elsewhere in this archive, where the staff building shows plainly below the fortress ramparts.
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
Stabsgebaeude am neuen Wege
- Date
- 1910s
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1522 × 988 px
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