The guard has turned out at the gate, and a German message signed Marie is written across the foot with the year. The caption is set in Fraktur with a Serbian line under each German one, so a greeting from the fortress and the naming of the main guard at the Belgrade gate both run in German and Serbian with no Hungarian, and it was published by a house in Neusatz.
Published by Josef Schindler
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 der Festung Peterwardein / Hauptwache beim Belgrader Festungsthor / Verlag Josef Schindler, Neusatz / Marie / 1900
- Date
- 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25250, 19.86250
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 832 × 527 px
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