by July 1907Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress, with a Man Poling a Boat, 1907
A man poles a small boat across calm water in the foreground, with moored boats and a floating walkway near the near bank, and the fortress silhouette with its own small clock tower rising on the hill across the river. The heading gives the fortress's name four times, Hungarian Pétervárad, German Peterwardein and Serbian Cyrillic Петроварадин, beside the city name Ujvidék.
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
UJVIDÉK / PÉTERVÁRAD / PETERWARDEIN / Петроварадин
Novi Sad. Petrovaradin, in Hungarian, German and Serbian Cyrillic.
- Date
- by July 1907
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2304 × 1527 px
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