1896Petrovaradin
The Road to Banstol, Through the Vineyards Near Petrovaradin, 1896
A country road curves along a valley between vineyard slopes, wooden fence rails lining its outer edge and a horse cart standing in the middle distance. Bare trees mark the near bank. Dated 1896.
Photographed by Dragutin Hodina (?)
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.
- Date
- 1896
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
- Credit
- Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia / Hodina (?), Dragutin
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2872 × 2168 px
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