River monitors of the Danube flotilla lie moored below the fortress, crews drawn up along their decks and two tall funnels standing above the armoured hulls. The fortress runs along the ridge behind them and a lattice bridge crosses at the right. The card is hand-coloured and captioned twice, in Cyrillic and again in Latin, naming the flotilla at a celebration.
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
Петроварадин. Дунавске ратне флотиле приликом славе. / Dunavske ratne flotile prilikom slave.
Petrovaradin. The Danube war flotilla at a celebration.
- Date
- 1930s
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 815 × 521 px
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