A chromolithographed multi-view card titled Greetings from Neusatz gathers five vignettes: the Central Credit Institute, the Peterwardein fortress across a bridge with rowing and sailing boats on the Danube, the Lovolde shooting range with a crowd on its terrace, Elisabeth Square's tree-lined street, and the Hotel Central on its corner. A sender has written a message across the front and dated it 28 July 1898, and the card was printed by Hermann Seibt of Meissen for the Neusatz publisher Ignaz Urban.
Published by Ignác Urbán · Printed by Hermann Seibt, Meissen
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 Neusatz / Üdvözlet Ujvidékről / Magyar kir. törvényszék, Königl. ung. Gerichtshof / Pétervárad vár, Festung Peterwardein / Lövölde, Schiesstätte / Erzsébet tér, Elisabeth Platz / Központi szálloda, Hotel Central / Verlag Ignaz Urban / Hermann Seibt, Meissen
Greetings from Neusatz. / Royal Hungarian court house. / Peterwardein fortress. / Shooting range. / Elisabeth Square. / Hotel Central. / Published by Ignaz Urban. / Hermann Seibt, Meissen.
- Date
- 1898
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Matica Srpska Library
- Credit
- Matica Srpska Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2385 × 1546 px
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