A group photographed on the Danube bank opposite Petrovaradin: a line of soldiers stands along a beached wooden barge at the left, while at the right a party of civilians has arranged itself on the bank, two women in white dresses seated among men in straw boaters and flat caps, one man stripped to the waist, and another lying in the leaves in the foreground holding up a branch. Beyond the water the fortress runs along its ridge and the railway bridge crosses at the right.
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.
- Date
- 1920s
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1800 × 1135 px
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