The main channel is carried on a parabolic bowstring truss and the approach on a balustraded viaduct, and the bridgehead is dressed with a canopied pavilion and tall ornamental lamp standards on swept iron brackets. The water is low enough to leave a wide mud shelf under the piers. The caption is set in both Serbian scripts with no Hungarian or German, which places the card after 1918, and the Serbian word in it means a king's son, so the crossing is named for a prince rather than for any King Thomas.
About this place
The Prince Tomislav bridge was the first permanent road bridge over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin. It was built between 1921 and 1928, and it opened a boulevard along which Novi Sad grew down to the river and tied the city to Petrovaradin on the far bank. The Water Gate of the Petrovaradin lower town and the Danube fortifications were pulled down in the early 1920s to clear the ground for it. Yugoslav forces mined the bridge in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944; the replacement raised on the same crossing after the war was named for Marshal Tito. In photographs it is told apart from the town’s other crossings by the spiked finials along its truss, a silhouette that recalls the bridges of Budapest.
On the card
Нови Сад - Мост Краљевића Томислава / Novi Sad - Most Kraljevića Tomislava
- Date
- 1928–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 400 × 252 px
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