by May 1942Petrovaradin
A Wartime Wooden Trestle Bridge to Petrovaradin, 1942
A plain wooden trestle bridge crosses the water at the left edge of the frame, a simpler structure than the steel truss bridges seen elsewhere in the Petrovaradin views and possibly a wartime replacement for a crossing damaged during the 1941 invasion. Petrovaradin Fortress and its long barracks range are reflected in the still water beyond. The heading, Ujvidék, Pétervárad, appears beneath the photograph.
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
Újvidék - Pétervárad
Novi Sad - Petrovaradin
- Date
- by May 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2406 × 1544 px
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