Hungarian soldiers and a few passers-by stand on the quay directly under the Petrovaradin escarpment, the long white barracks range of the fortress on the skyline above the loess slope with its scrub and terrace walls. The man at the right is a gendarme, cock feathers rising from his hat and four medals with a whistle chain across his tunic. Behind them the stepped stone embankment runs down to moored river craft, one showing a black funnel with a white band, and railway track crosses the foreground. Uniforms and dress are those of 1941.
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
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Europeana /1090/MNMMUSEUM1394349
- Credit
- Hungarian National Museum via Europeana
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Size
- 640 × 441 px
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