An Italian engraving of the victory of 5 August 1716, credited in its title panel to Prince Eugene of Savoy and keyed A to Ii below the plate. The legend names the fortress of Pietro-Varadino, the Citta Rasciana below it, the Turkish batteries thrown up against the imperial retrenchments, the villages of Svabendorf and Rotendorf, a brickworks, the road to Futack and the road to Carloviza, and the Peace Chapel at Karlovci. Entry Aa marks the Grand Vizier's pavilion ringed with Christian heads on stakes, and Bb the total flight of the Turks, drawn as three columns of smoke over the abandoned camp.
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
Disségno della segnalata Vittoria riportata dall'Essercito Cesareo sotto l'Alto Comando del Ten. Generale Cesareo Seren. Prencipe Eugenio di Savoia contra li Turchi trà Pietro-Varadino, e Carloviza alli 5 d'Agosto 1716.
Drawing of the signal victory won by the Imperial army under the high command of the Imperial Lieutenant General, His Serene Highness Prince Eugene of Savoy, against the Turks between Petrovaradin and Karlovci on 5 August 1716.
- Date
- 1716
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Europeana /318/marc_nli_003705724
- Credit
- National Library of Israel via Europeana
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 801 × 1145 px
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