by November 1941Petrovaradin
The destroyed railway bridge, Petrovaradin Fortress beyond
The railway bridge's wrecked truss span leans into the Danube, its remaining piers marching across the water toward Petrovaradin Fortress on the ridge beyond. A floating crane works at the wreck in the middle distance. Captioned 'Petervarad es a felrobbantott vasuti hid' (Petrovaradin and the blown-up railway bridge), dated November 1941.
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 Pétervárad és a felrobbantott vasúti híd
- Date
- by November 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2352 × 1486 px
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