A shingle beach on the near bank with barrels, a crate and a coil of rope, a man in a top hat stooping over a bundle, and women in headscarves seated among wicker baskets in a moored boat. Covered barges lie alongside under a tall mast and a floating mill rides at the left, with a line of pontoons strung across the water in the middle distance. Beyond, Petrovaradin fortress stands on its height above the lower town, hills receding to the right. The caption reads "PETERWARDEIN / in Ungarn.", and the margins carry no artist, printer or plate number.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
PETERWARDEIN in Ungarn.
Peterwardein in Hungary.
- Date
- 1845
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National Library of Serbia, Danube collection
- Credit
- National Library of Serbia
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1846 × 1632 px
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