A silver medal struck in Nuremberg for the allies' victories of 1694, signed P H M by the medallist Philipp Heinrich Müller. On the obverse a troop of helmeted children carries the standards of the Christian allies beneath a banner bearing the Chi-Rho and treads the fallen flags of France and the Ottomans underfoot. On the reverse a winged Victory with a laurel branch and a palm stands among the river gods of the Danube, the Meuse and the Rhine, and the legend names the year's three successes: Petrovaradin relieved, Huy retaken and the Rhine crossed. The first is the Ottoman siege of the fortress and its entrenched imperial camp that autumn, abandoned in early October 1694.
Philipp Heinrich Müller · Friedrich Kleinert
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
VIRTVTI ET CONCORDIÆ CHRISTIANORVM. / PHM / PETROVARADINO LIBERATO. HVYO RECEPTO. RHENO TRAIECTO. / P.H.M. / CONTRA TVRCAS EORVMQVE FŒDERATOS TRIPLEX XPIANORVM VICTORIA / 1694
To the courage and concord of the Christians. / Petrovaradin relieved, Huy retaken, the Rhine crossed. / A threefold victory of the Christians against the Turks and their allies, 1694.
- Date
- 1694
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 5029 × 2544 px
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