A small Baroque chapel stands on bare churned ground above the water, its onion domed bell tower carrying a cross, with a long walled range and a lean-to shed running away to the right and cut blocks of masonry lying loose across the foreground. The steel spans of a truss bridge cross the view on the left. This is the Roman Catholic chapel of St John of Nepomuk, patron of boatmen, which stood inside Mostobran, the Danube bridgehead fortification also known as Brukšanac, from the middle of the 18th century. The cleared ground and the loose masonry are the fortification coming down around it as the city pushed toward the river. The chapel followed in 1928, demolished for the approaches to the Prince Tomislav Bridge, whose ironwork is the bridge in the picture.
About this place
A small Baroque Roman Catholic chapel that stood on the Novi Sad bank of the Danube inside Mostobran, the bridgehead fortification also known as Brukšanac. It was dedicated to John of Nepomuk, patron of boatmen and of those in danger on the water, which is why a chapel to him sat at a river crossing. Sources place it there from the middle of the 18th century, one giving 1759. It was a modest single nave building with an onion domed bell tower over its front, standing among the sheds, walled yards and timber gangways of the landing where the Danube steamers moored. The chapel went when the fortification went: the ramparts, ditches, gates and barracks of Mostobran were cleared as the city expanded toward the river after the First World War, and the chapel itself was pulled down in 1928 during the building of the approaches to the Prince Tomislav Bridge. A local tradition holds that a tunnel once linked it to the church of St George in Petrovaradin on the far bank. Nothing of it stands today. The pin is the OpenStreetMap point for the Novi Sad approach of the crossing, near the Kej žrtava racije end of today's Varadin Bridge, because the chapel's own footprint has not been georeferenced.
- Date
- 1928
- Coordinates
- 45.25354, 19.85546
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 459 × 600 px
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