The Belgrade Gate's stone archway at Petrovaradin Fortress, a small crowd at the entrance and uniformed men in formation along the fence to the right. Captioned in German, 'Gruss aus der Festung Peterwardein, Hauptwache beim Belgrader Festungsthor' (Greetings from Peterwardein Fortress, the main guard post at the Belgrade Gate), published by Josef Schindler of Neusatz. Schindler also issued the view with the imprint Ujvidék (Neusatz), and a copy of that printing is dated in ink 14 April 1899.
Published by Josef Schindler
About this place
A Habsburg star fortress on the right bank of the Danube, built between 1692 and 1780 on a site fortified since antiquity: the Romans held Cusum here, a medieval fortress followed, and Cistercian monks kept a monastery on the hill in the 13th century. Beneath its walls Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a far larger Ottoman army on 5 August 1716. Nicknamed the Gibraltar on the Danube, the fortress conceals some 16 kilometres of underground counter-mine galleries dug in 1764-1776. On its clock tower the hands are reversed, the long hand showing the hours so that fishermen on the Danube could read the time from a distance. The fortress still stands over the river and houses the City Museum of Novi Sad.
On the card
Gruss aus der Festung Peterwardein. Hauptwache beim Belgrader Festungsthor
- Date
- by August 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2604 × 1746 px
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