A lithograph of Petrovaradin Fortress from the shore directly beneath the rock, the Upper Town barracks and the clock tower along the plateau and the lower town with a church spire below to the left. Barefoot women carry water jars and pails on shoulder yokes at the water line, a man in a broad-brimmed hat stands by a child seated on a felled trunk, and a beached barge and a narrow punt lie beside stacked squared timber. The sheet belongs to Adolph Kunike's series of Danube views, drawn by the Viennese painter Jakob Alt and printed at Vienna in 1826.
Drawn by Jakob Alt · Lithographed by Adolph Kunike
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
gez. v. J. Alt. / SYRMIEN. / Festung Peterwardein. / Druck v. Kunike
Drawn by J. Alt. / Syrmia. / Peterwardein Fortress. / Printed by Kunike.
- Date
- 1826
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 8362 × 6819 px
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