1896–1918Petrovaradin
Jelačić Street, Petrovaradin, with Soldiers at the Gateway Arch
A cobbled street inside Petrovaradin Fortress, captioned in Serbian and German as 'Grad Petrovaradin, Festung Peterwardein' and, beneath, 'Jelacicdeva ulica, Jelacic Gasse', the street's two names printed side by side. Wrought-iron balconies front the houses, the street closes on a stone gateway arch, and two soldiers stand at a doorway on the right among a scatter of pedestrians.
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
Festung Peterwardein. Jelacic Gasse
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2562 × 1700 px
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