The viewer stands beside the fortress clock tower, its two dial faces filling the left half of the frame above a weathered stone shaft. Below, the Danube curves past a riverside park with tree-lined paths and an oval track, the flat outskirts of Novi Sad receding on the far bank. The tower's clock is known for reversing the usual convention, with the long hand marking the hour and the short hand the minute, so boatmen on the river could read the hour from a distance.
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
XII I II III IIII V VI VII VIII IX X XI
Roman numerals around both visible clock faces, with four given as IIII rather than IV.
- Date
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Fortepan
- Credit
- Fortepan / Martin Djemil
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Size
- 2802 × 3774 px
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