A wide view across the Danube from a bare earth bank. Three young men in dark three piece suits and hats stand together at the water's edge in the right of the frame, one with a hand on a companion's shoulder, one with a hand on his hip and a cane or umbrella held down at his side, all three looking at the camera. Behind them the river runs pale and flat. A long low bridge crosses it from the left, carried on trestles at the near end and rising into shallow lattice arches further out, with a small structure standing on it partway across. Beyond the far bank a line of trees runs along a low embankment, and behind that the wooded slope of Petrovaradin rises with buildings along its crest. The whole lower half of the picture is empty foreshore.
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.
- Date
- 1917
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1735 × 1300 px
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