The pontoon bridge is opened for shipping, a section of the deck floated aside on its boats with a man standing on the planking, and a steam tug works a train of barges beyond. The caption is in Hungarian and German with no Serbian, which places the card before 1918, and the publisher's line at the foot is set in Hungarian too.
Published by Ignác Urbán
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
Pétervárad vára / Festung Peterwardein / Urbán Ignácz kiadása
- Date
- 1900–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1616 × 1016 px
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