A hand-colored view of Novi Sad from across the Danube, with an iron truss bridge crossing the river in the foreground and the Cathedral's spire rising above the rooftops on the far bank. Timber yards and moored boats line the near shore. The caption gives the city's name only as Novi Sad, in Serbian Cyrillic and Latin script.
About this place
The Emperor Franz Joseph bridge was the first permanent crossing of the Danube at Novi Sad and it carried the railway, not the road. It went up in 1883, the year the line from Subotica reached the town in March and the stretch onward to Zemun opened in December, and it stood for fifty-eight years. After 1918 it was renamed for Prince Andrej of the Yugoslav royal house. The Yugoslav army blew it up in April 1941 to slow the German advance southward, and the occupiers put up a replacement railway bridge that they in turn destroyed as they withdrew in 1944. This archive's catalogue gives the length as 432 metres and credits the design to Karl Baumann, who is said also to have driven the tunnel under the Petrovaradin fortress.
On the card
Bridges over the Danube near Novi Sad / Mostovi preko Dunava u blizini Novog Sada
- Date
- 1919–1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25017, 19.85890
- Source
- Matica Srpska Library
- Credit
- Matica Srpska Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1800 × 1200 px
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