by January 1915Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress, a Hand-Tinted View Across the Danube, 1915
Petrovaradin Fortress on its hill, a church and a red-roofed building at its foot, a stone embankment wall along the water where small boats are moored. Captioned 'Festung Peterwardein, Grad Petrovaradin, Petervarad var'.
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
Pétervárad vár
- Date
- by January 1915
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2337 × 1517 px
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