A row of bare stone bridge piers stands in the Danube, stripped of their spans except for one twisted section of ironwork at the far right. Petrovaradin Fortress is visible on the hill at the far left, with railway tracks running along the empty embankment in the foreground. The source dates the photograph to 1942 and identifies this as the destroyed railway bridge.
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.
- Date
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Négyesi Pál
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 3616 × 1372 px
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