1942.Petrovaradin
Nine Views of Novi Sad, Centred on National Flag Square, 1942
Nine captioned views include Országzászló-tér, National Flag Square, showing the same Town Hall clock tower and Holy Trinity column seen elsewhere as Fötér and, later, Trg Oslobođenja, suggesting the main square carried yet another name under the wartime Hungarian administration; Horthy Miklós-sugárút; Országzászló (the flag itself); two separate views labelled Rex-palota; Pétervárad vára (Petrovaradin Fortress); Parkrészlet (a park with a statue); Egészségügyi palota (the Health Palace); and Közigazgatási palota (the Administrative Palace). All captions are Hungarian only, dated 1942.
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 Országzászló tér. Horthy Miklós sugárút. Országzászló. Rex-palota. Pétervárad vára. Parkrészlet. Egészségügyi palota. Közigazgatási palota. Rex-palota
- Date
- 1942.
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2348 × 1512 px
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