1917Petrovaradin
A Military Bath Train at Petrovaradin, the Locomotive in Full View
A steam locomotive draws a line of boxcars into the yard at Petrovaradin, smoke pouring from the stack. Nothing in the cars' plain wooden exteriors betrays their fitting as a military bath train; a station building and two figures stand at the trackside on the left.
Photographed by Kálmán Shvoy
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
Pétervárad :Fürdővonat[fénykép] /Shvoy Kálmán
- Date
- 1917
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library - Shvoy Kálmán Collection
- Credit
- SZTE Klebelsberg Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2000 × 1516 px
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