by December 1908Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress and the Crowded Pontoon Bridge, a Rowboat Below
Petrovaradin Fortress across the Danube, a pontoon bridge crowded with pedestrians and a lone figure poling a rowboat in the foreground. Captioned in three languages and two scripts: Ujvidék and Pétervárad in Hungarian, Peterwardein in German, and Петроварадин in Cyrillic.
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
Ujvidék / Pétervárad - Peterwardein - Петроварадин
Novi Sad. Pétervárad, Peterwardein, Petrovaradin, the town named in Hungarian, German and Serbian.
- Date
- by December 1908
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2347 × 1514 px
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