Two women and a man stand on an ornamental iron footbridge beside the railway line, while a soldier stands among piled stone blocks on the tracks. Behind them a girder of the demolished railway bridge leans at a sharp angle where its span has broken away. Across the river, Petrovaradin Fortress and its clock tower rise above the fortress walls.
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
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Csorba Dániel
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 5377 × 3350 px
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