A wide reach of the Danube, with Petrovaradin fortress on its escarpment to the left and the pontoon crossing toward Novi Sad drawn faintly across the water at the right. A moored cargo barge with a raked mast dominates the centre, a boat of travellers is rowed past the near shore, and willow scrub closes the right foreground. The caption reads "SYRMIEN. / Die Festung Peterwardein und der Brückenkopf zu Neusatz.", and the margins carry "gez. v. J. Alt" and "Druck v. Kunike". This is a large, richly inked impression.
Drawn by Jakob Alt · Lithographed by Adolph Kunike
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
gez. v. J. Alt / SYRMIEN. / Die Festung Peterwardein und der Brückenkopf zu Neusatz. / Druck v. Kunike
Drawn by J. Alt. Syrmia. The fortress of Peterwardein and the bridgehead at Neusatz. Printed by Kunike.
- Date
- 1826
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- National Library of Serbia, Danube collection
- Credit
- National Library of Serbia
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2674 × 1894 px
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