A steamer trailing smoke passes barges and pontoon boats moored below the Petrovaradin fortress, with the railway bridge visible at the far right. The Hungarian and German caption, with no Cyrillic, and the publisher's imprint naming Ignac Urban of Ujvidek match other cards from this publisher in the batch.
Published by Ignác Urbán
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
Péterváradi erőd Festung Peterwardein
- Date
- 1896–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2403 × 1546 px
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