A paddle steamer lies alongside the pontoon station with bunting strung from the mast, and the station's board carries the initials of the Hungarian shipping company that held the berth. The caption is in Hungarian and German and calls the station Hungarian in both, which places the card before 1918 and gives the berth to the company rather than to the town.
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
Ujvidék / Magyar hajóállomás / Ungarische Schiffstation / M.F.T.R.
- Date
- 1908
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 722 × 474 px
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