The greeting is Serbian and the street is named in German and Serbian with no Hungarian, the pairing Petrovaradin cards carry. The two names do not agree: the German calls it a promenade while the Serbian calls it hospital street, so each language gave the same row of houses a different character. A man sits on one of the benches under the bare pollarded trees lining it.
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
Pozdrav iz Petrovaradinu / Promenadegasse / Bolnicka ulica
- Date
- 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1600 × 1004 px
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