1688–1918Petrovaradin
The fortress of Petrovaradin defended against an Ottoman attack
An engraved map shows the fortress of Peterwardein and the Danube, with a Christian army encamped nearby and lines marking an Ottoman assault on the position. The German title describes the Christian army positioned near the fortress and the attacks mounted against it by the hereditary enemy, the period's term for the Ottomans.
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
Die Fesstung Peterwardein...
- Date
- 1688–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Credit
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 500 × 359 px
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