A long exposure looking along the Danube at night. The steel bridge runs from the upper left corner down across the frame on its piers, its trusses picked out against a black sky by a line of lamps set along the parapet, each burning into a soft halo. Under the far end a lit quay shows a low white building and a row of moored craft lie against the near bank in the dark, one of them carrying a light of its own. The whole of the lower half of the picture is the river, still enough to carry the lamps down in long unbroken columns of reflection, and a lit buoy or marker stands mid stream. The print is scratched and speckled and its corners have gone dark.
About this place
The Prince Tomislav bridge was the first permanent road bridge over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin. It was built between 1921 and 1928, and it opened a boulevard along which Novi Sad grew down to the river and tied the city to Petrovaradin on the far bank. The Water Gate of the Petrovaradin lower town and the Danube fortifications were pulled down in the early 1920s to clear the ground for it. Yugoslav forces mined the bridge in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944; the replacement raised on the same crossing after the war was named for Marshal Tito. In photographs it is told apart from the town’s other crossings by the spiked finials along its truss, a silhouette that recalls the bridges of Budapest.
- Date
- 1928–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 898 × 1370 px
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