1941–1944Petrovaradin
Petrovaradin Fortress beyond the Broken Railway Bridge, a Second Copy
Another copy of the same view: the last standing span of the railway bridge on the left, its bare piers crossing the Danube toward the Petrovaradin fortress, and the long barracks on the hilltop above the riverbank houses. The bridge was blown up in April 1941, and the Hungarian caption, Ujvidék, Pétervárad, belongs to the occupation that followed.
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
Újvidék. Pétervárad
- Date
- 1941–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- National Széchényi Library - postcards
- Credit
- National Széchényi Library
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2322 × 1483 px
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