An engraved bird's-eye view of Petrovaradin with a column of German text down the left margin, from the Augsburg engraver Gabriel Bodenehr. The Danube runs across the sheet with a boat bridge crossing to the fortified town, the star-shaped works of the fortress spread on the Syrmian bank and a Turkish redoubt marked on the open ground opposite. The text explains for a German reader that after the Peace of Karlowitz this was the most important frontier place against the Ottomans, and recalls the entrenchments made under General Caprara.
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
PETERWARDEIN / Ist nach dem Carlowitzer Frieden der wichtigste Grantz-Ort gegen die Türcken [...] / Donau / Sclavonien / Morast / Croaten-Dorff / Schiffbrucken / Bolwerckhen / Statt / Türkisch Schantz / Capell / 143 / G. Bodenehr fecit et exc.
Peterwardein. After the Peace of Karlowitz the most important frontier place against the Turks [...] / Danube / Slavonia / Marsh / Croat village / Boat bridge / Bulwarks / Town / Turkish redoubt / Chapel / 143 / Made and published by G. Bodenehr.
- Date
- early eighteenth century
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 8982 × 6709 px
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