1896–1918Petrovaradin
Elevated View Down Strossmayer Street, Petrovaradin
Strossmayer Street in Petrovaradin, an elevated view down the lane toward a church with a slender spire, tree branches framing the scene at the right. Men in suits and women in long skirts stand along the cobbles, with children nearer the foreground. Captioned in Serbian and German, 'Strosmaljerova ulica, Strosmalergasse', named for the Croatian bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer.
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. Strosmaiergasse
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1178 × 1807 px
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