1826Petrovaradin Fortress
The Fortress of Peterwardein and the Bridgehead at Neusatz, by Jakob Alt, hand-coloured
A hand-coloured lithograph of the Danube at Petrovaradin, with the fortress along the ridge at the left and the bridgehead earthwork on the Neusatz bank at the right. A masted river barge lies moored in the centre and a punt with four figures is drawn up on the near shore. From Adolf Kunike's series of Danube views after drawings by Jakob Alt, printed at Vienna in 1826.
Drawn by Jakob Alt · Lithographed by Adolph Kunike
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
gez. v. J. Alt. / SYRMIEN. / Die Festung Peterwardein und der Brückenkopf zu Neusatz. / Druck v. Kunike
Drawn by J. Alt. / Syrmia. / The fortress of Peterwardein and the bridgehead at Neusatz. / Printed by Kunike.
- Date
- 1826
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 4332 × 3414 px
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