by February 1899Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin and the Pontoon Bridge, 1899
Petrovaradin Fortress with its pontoon bridge, a horse-drawn carriage crossing the boat-supported roadway among pedestrians. Captioned 'Petervarad hajohiddal, Festung Peterwardein mit der Schiffbrucke'. The publisher's credit at the right edge names August Herger of Ujvidek, and the card is dated in ink, 19 February 1899, at 11:45.
Published by Ágoston Herger
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 hajóhiddal / Festung Peterwardein mit der Schiffbrücke. / Herger Ágoston kiadása Ujvidéken. / 19/II 99 11.45
Petrovaradin with the pontoon bridge; the same in German. Published by Ágoston Herger in Novi Sad. Written 19 February 1899, 11.45.
- Date
- by February 1899
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2344 × 1532 px
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