by December 1914Franz Josef Bridge
A Guard at the Railway Bridge in Winter, Fortress Beyond, 1914
A man in a peaked cap stands watch at the near end of the bridge, a large cask resting on the walkway and bare winter trees lining the bank. Fortress walls are just visible through the ironwork on the far side. The caption reads Vasuti hid, Eisenbahn Brücke, the railway bridge. Dated 7 December 1914.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
The Emperor Franz Joseph bridge was the first permanent crossing of the Danube at Novi Sad and it carried the railway, not the road. It went up in 1883, the year the line from Subotica reached the town in March and the stretch onward to Zemun opened in December, and it stood for fifty-eight years. After 1918 it was renamed for Prince Andrej of the Yugoslav royal house. The Yugoslav army blew it up in April 1941 to slow the German advance southward, and the occupiers put up a replacement railway bridge that they in turn destroyed as they withdrew in 1944. This archive's catalogue gives the length as 432 metres and credits the design to Karl Baumann, who is said also to have driven the tunnel under the Petrovaradin fortress.
On the card
Újvidék. Vasúti híd
- Date
- by December 1914
- Coordinates
- 45.25017, 19.85890
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2363 × 1523 px
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