1688Petrovaradin
Plan of the Imperial Army Camped at Petrovaradin, 1688
A hand-drawn campaign map lays out rows of tents and named units of the Imperial army encamped near Peterwardein, with the Danube shown at right and hills and villages sketched around the camp. The title cartouche reads that this is a sketch of the Imperial army as it stood near Peterwardein in July of the year 1688.
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
Abriß der kaiserlich[en] Armee, wie selbe den 10./20. Julii bey Peterwardein gestanden. a[nn]o 1688
- Date
- 1688
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- State Archives of Baden-Württemberg
- Credit
- State Archives of Baden-Württemberg / not recorded
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Size
- 1000 × 541 px
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