by August 1900Petrovaradin
Beogradska Street toward the Belgrade Gate, a horse cart at the arch
Rows of mostly one-storey houses under tiled roofs line both sides of the street, with shop awnings, pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage, and the large masonry arch of the Belgrade Gate closes the view at the far end. This is Petrovaradin's Hauptgasse, the principal street of the Lower Fortress and Suburbium, today's Beogradska Street: historical descriptions identify the former Haupt Gasse with Beogradska and describe it as the route between the Danube or Novi Sad Gate at the western end, which no longer survives, and the Belgrade Gate at the eastern end. The printed German caption reads Peterwardein, Hauptgasse, and the vertical imprint names the publisher as Ignácz Urbán of Neusatz.
Published by Ignác Urbán
About this place
The town on the right bank of the Danube facing Novi Sad, gathered around its great fortress. A Roman fortress called Cusum stood here in the 1st century, and the medieval town is first recorded as Peturwarod (Pétervárad) in 1237. The Ottomans took it after a two-week siege in 1526, and it passed definitively to the Habsburgs in the 1690s, becoming the garrison town of Peterwardein; Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army beneath its walls in 1716. The Baroque lower town (Podgrađe) still stands under the fortress walls. Long administered separately from Novi Sad, Petrovaradin lost its last separate municipal status when the city statute of March 2019 merged it fully into the City of Novi Sad.
On the card
Peterwardein. -- Hauptgasse. / Verlag v. Ignaz Urban, Neusatz.
Petrovaradin. Main Street. Published by Ignaz Urban, Novi Sad.
- Date
- by August 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2998 × 1948 px
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