An elevated view from a garden on the Syrmian slope, flowering shrubs and a path in the foreground and a cottage among trees at the right. A man in a top hat stands with a woman beside a second woman seated in a pale dress. Below, the Danube sweeps away with the pontoon crossing laid across it and a boat on the water, Neusatz and its church towers low on the far bank at the left and Petrovaradin Fortress crowning its white cliff at the right. A lithograph from Adolph Kunike's series of Danube views after drawings by Jakob Alt, printed at Vienna in 1826.
Drawn by Jakob Alt · Lithographed by Adolph Kunike
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
gez. v. J. Alt. / SYRMIEN. / Peterwardein und Neusatz. / Druck v. Kunike
Drawn by J. Alt. / Syrmia. / Peterwardein and Neusatz. / Printed by Kunike.
- Date
- 1826
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 6160 × 4782 px
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