The vessel lying at the landing carries a Croatian name in large letters across her paddle box, and the fortress stands on its hill above. The caption is printed in Serbian alone while a medallion of the whiskered emperor is set beside it, so three nationalities are named on one card, all of them subjects of the same monarchy.
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
Hrvat / Grad Petrovaradin
- Date
- 1908
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1097 × 641 px
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