The title block is German and declares the sheet an underground plan, so what is mapped here at 1:4000 is the counter-mine galleries dug beneath the glacis rather than the works standing above them. The galleries are drawn as hatched double lines running out under the outworks towards the Danube and the lower town. Three officers have signed it in ink at the foot, and those signatures and the legend printed beside them are too faint to transcribe.
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. Today the fortress houses the City Museum of Novi Sad and hosts the EXIT festival each summer.
On the card
Souterrain-Plan der Festung Peterwardein / 1:4000
- Date
- Habsburg period
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 460 × 297 px
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