Several steam-powered river vessels lie moored off the old Danube landing, their tall funnels standing above the water, with small boats, timber gangways and a waterside service structure in the foreground and along the right. The building at left with the onion-domed bell tower is the Roman Catholic Chapel of St John of Nepomuk, put up inside Brukšanac in 1759 and dedicated to the patron of boatmen and ship-repair craftsmen. The permanent Novi Sad steamer landing established in the nineteenth century lay immediately north of Brukšanac, and although the city's principal freight port moved to the Franz Joseph Canal in 1910, this older Danube-side landing went on serving passenger vessels. The chapel places the scene at the old riverfront landing at Mostobran.
About this place
A small Baroque Roman Catholic chapel that stood on the Novi Sad bank of the Danube inside Mostobran, the bridgehead fortification also known as Brukšanac. It was dedicated to John of Nepomuk, patron of boatmen and of those in danger on the water, which is why a chapel to him sat at a river crossing. Sources place it there from the middle of the 18th century, one giving 1759. It was a modest single nave building with an onion domed bell tower over its front, standing among the sheds, walled yards and timber gangways of the landing where the Danube steamers moored. The chapel went when the fortification went: the ramparts, ditches, gates and barracks of Mostobran were cleared as the city expanded toward the river after the First World War, and the chapel itself was pulled down in 1928 during the building of the approaches to the Prince Tomislav Bridge. A local tradition holds that a tunnel once linked it to the church of St George in Petrovaradin on the far bank. Nothing of it stands today. The pin is the OpenStreetMap point for the Novi Sad approach of the crossing, near the Kej žrtava racije end of today's Varadin Bridge, because the chapel's own footprint has not been georeferenced.
- Date
- 1914–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25354, 19.85546
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1680 × 1177 px
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