An engraving of the fortress drawn and cut by A. H. Payne and published at Dresden and Leipzig about 1848, so within a decade of the Bartlett view and from much the same position. The flat-topped white cliff carries the barrack ranges along its edge, the water-gate curtain wall runs at river level beneath, and the Danube is wide and open with a paddle steamer on it. Boatmen in local dress work in the foreground on the near bank.
A. H. Payne (draughtsman and engraver)
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. A. H. Payne del. et sc.
Peterwardein below the impression, signed A. H. Payne del. et sc., meaning he both drew and engraved it.
- Date
- circa 1848
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Credit
- National and University Library in Zagreb
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 3251 × 2201 px
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