Petrovaradin
Arms of the free military town of Peterwardein, 1792
A painted panel with the arms of Petrovaradin, its oval border lettered in German Wappen der k.k. Haupt-Grenz-Festung und Freien Militärs Stadt Peterwardein, Den 1. Juni 1792: arms of the imperial-royal frontier fortress and free military town of Peterwardein, 1 June 1792. The quartered shield carries the imperial double-headed eagle, St Peter and five birds, with an armoured arm and sabre on the centre; a knight and a frontier soldier support it over drums, cannonballs and flags. Later accounts date the grant of the arms to 1751. The panel is in the Museum of the City of Novi Sad; this photograph of it in its display case was taken in 2024.
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.
- Year
- 1792
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Public online source
- Credit
- DjordjeMarkovic
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Size
- 2640 × 3000 px
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