A vessel passes beneath the fixed span with the town's rooftops and several towers visible on the far bank, and a handwritten German letter fills the right side, signed Szödényi. The heading confirms this as the Bahnbrücke, the railway bridge, distinct from the pontoon road crossing seen elsewhere in the river views, and dates it to April 1899, earlier than any of those pontoon-bridge cards. The publisher's imprint at left reads Pick Testvérek, Bécs, Vienna.
Published by Pick Testvérek, Vienna
About this place
The Emperor Franz Joseph bridge was the first permanent crossing of the Danube at Novi Sad and it carried the railway, not the road. It went up in 1883, the year the line from Subotica reached the town in March and the stretch onward to Zemun opened in December, and it stood for fifty-eight years. After 1918 it was renamed for Prince Andrej of the Yugoslav royal house. The Yugoslav army blew it up in April 1941 to slow the German advance southward, and the occupiers put up a replacement railway bridge that they in turn destroyed as they withdrew in 1944. This archive's catalogue gives the length as 432 metres and credits the design to Karl Baumann, who is said also to have driven the tunnel under the Petrovaradin fortress.
On the card
Neusatz. / Bahnbrücke. / Pick Testvérek, Bécs.
Novi Sad. The railway bridge. Pick Brothers, Vienna.
- Date
- by April 1899
- Coordinates
- 45.25017, 19.85890
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2343 × 1566 px
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