A colour lithograph of the imperial and royal military upper education house on the plateau above Kamenitz, its long ranges standing clear of the hillside behind a walled forecourt. Below, the village falls away to the Danube under a tall church spire, with a paddle steamer on the water and the fortress of Petrovaradin on its rock opposite. The plate is lettered in German alone, with the institution's full imperial and royal title; smaller lines credit Doderer and the Vienna printers Reiffenstein & Rösch. It belongs to the architect Wilhelm von Doderer's series on the empire's military schools, and in 1859 Kamenitz was one of five such upper houses, taking boys for four years after the lower schools.
Drawn by Doderer · Printed by Reiffenstein & Rösch
About this place
The long school building above Sremska Kamenica was raised in 1848 for the Austrian army and has been given over to military or police training for most of its life since. An infantry cadet school moved here from Osijek in 1895 and stayed until the empire ended, and postcards of that period caption it K. u. K. Infanterie-Cadettenschule; the village itself is Kamanc in Hungarian and appears on the cards as Kamenitz. Between the wars the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ran the place as its gendarmerie and non-commissioned officers' school, the name printed on the 1920s and 1930s cards, and after 1945 a run of militia and interior-ministry schools followed. It holds the Serbian police Centre for Basic Police Training today, keeping its original romantic-revival shape in a park of some sixteen hectares; no architect is recorded for it.
On the card
K. K. MILITAIR-OBER-ERZIEHUNGSHAUS zu Kamenitz (bei Peterwardein.) / Doderer gez. / Mit Vorbehalt des Nachdrucks. / Druck v. Reiffenstein & Rösch in Wien.
Imperial and Royal Military Upper Education House at Kamenitz (near Peterwardein). Drawn by Doderer. Reproduction rights reserved. Printed by Reiffenstein & Rösch in Vienna.
- Date
- circa 1855
- Coordinates
- 45.22059, 19.85098
- Source
- Wilhelm von Doderer, Die kaiserlich-königlichen Militair-Erziehungs-Anstalten, Vienna, Reiffenstein & Rösch
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1600 × 1139 px
Open on the full map ›