# Franz Josef Bridge

Also called: Most Franje Josifa, Ferenc József híd, Franz-Josef-Brücke.

The Emperor Franz Joseph bridge was the first permanent crossing of the Danube at Novi Sad and it carried the railway, not the road. It went up in 1883, the year the line from Subotica reached the town in March and the stretch onward to Zemun opened in December, and it stood for fifty-eight years. After 1918 it was renamed for Prince Andrej of the Yugoslav royal house. The Yugoslav army blew it up in April 1941 to slow the German advance southward, and the occupiers put up a replacement railway bridge that they in turn destroyed as they withdrew in 1944. This archive's catalogue gives the length as 432 metres and credits the design to Karl Baumann, who is said also to have driven the tunnel under the Petrovaradin fortress.

## Pictures (64)

- [The lattice bridge over flooded ground](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f8ab555148c6/index.md), late 1800s
- [The Franz Josef Bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/a383e756232a/index.md), 1883–1941
- [Novi Sad and Petrovaradin site map, Danube gauge register, dual scale](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/67acd55217a3/index.md), 1894–1895
- [A Paddle Steamer Passing Petrovaradin, the Railway Bridge Beyond](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/423b4aa14e10/index.md), 1896–1918
- [Crossing the railway bridge toward Petrovaradin fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/ad7629e21ea4/index.md), 1896–1918
- [Petrovaradin fortress, with a smoking steamer on the Danube](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f4f687f242d2/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Giant Elevator (Orias-elevator) dredging the Danube near Petrovaradin](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/5a6ea996f418/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Hungarian Steamer Station, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/eb7f6ffa8953/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Pontoon Bridge at Petrovaradin, in Silhouette](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/04300e239bed/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Railway Bridge and Petrovaradin Fortress, Log Rafts Below](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/ac56a376c6a0/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The Steamer Klara Passing Petrovaradin Fortress and the Railway Bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/faf87ea7a6a8/index.md), 1896–1918
- [The tunnel mouth below the fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/938f0df5d620/index.md), 1896-1918
- [Five Views: Novi Sad's Credit Institute, Fortress and Shooting Range](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f59ed0d582b1/index.md), 1898
- [Petrovaradin Fortress, with the pontoon and railway bridges](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/6a21fd086284/index.md), by November 1899
- [The Railway Bridge, Novi Sad, 1899](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/aaa542e1b8e1/index.md), by April 1899
- [Two Views: Petrovaradin Fortress and a Lace-Railed Bridge, 1899](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/8ab42d1d69a6/index.md), by May 1899
- [Children with a Rowboat Below the Franz Josef Bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/58d2eaa6154b/index.md), 1900s
- [Franz Josef Bridge walkway](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/e559fd3b698f/index.md), 1900s
- [Petrovaradin Fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/10b497843c8a/index.md), 1900–1918
- [The Bridge Beyond a Wooden Fence Rail](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/301fb30a1d62/index.md), 1900s
- [The Railway Bridge and Tunnel Below Petrovaradin Fortress, 1900](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/011c8cc40190/index.md), by July 1900
- [The iron bridge over the Danube](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/0aadeec53d05/index.md), 1900–1918
- [Petrovaradin Fortress and the Railway Bridge, Rowboats Below](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/031628116e04/index.md), by December 1901
- [The Railway Bridge and Petrovaradin Fortress, Intact, 1904](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/34f70e4e361a/index.md), 1904
- [The bridge over the Danube, with a passing steamer](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/ac3d053749a6/index.md), by May 1905
- [Steamship HRVAT](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/fb22e325b897/index.md), 1908
- [The Railway Bridge, Dated August 1909, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/80655d201cd4/index.md), 1909
- [People on the shore by the bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/88d5b73cd899/index.md), 1910s
- [The Danube fleet](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/6a25ceae556a/index.md), 1910–1930
- [Rowing Regatta on the Danube, 1913](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/9231a9e1446f/index.md), 1913
- [A Guard at the Railway Bridge in Winter, Fortress Beyond, 1914](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/95662c1688d8/index.md), by December 1914
- [Soldiers on the railway bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b99e6dacafb6/index.md), 1914–1918
- [Traffic Crossing the Military Bridge to Petrovaradin](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/da6aa3da8203/index.md), 1914
- [Looking across the bridge to Petrovaradin Fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/4d129987c061/index.md), by March 1915
- [The Petrovaradin fortress with the railway bridge (companion print)](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/d0d8c7804578/index.md), 1915
- [Petrovaradin Fortress, with the Railway Bridge and the Boat Klara](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/03317fd2e4ef/index.md), by September 1916
- [Petrovaradin Fortress and the railway bridge at dusk](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/abdaa1c5cf74/index.md), by September 1917
- [Soldiers and a picnic party on the bank](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b1d7c470d8fc/index.md), 1920s
- [Novi Sad Across the Danube, the Railway Bridge Still Intact](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/e0a0de0f44fe/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Uniformed men at the railway bridge, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/3ec755ffc259/index.md), 1919–1941
- [Over the river and the fortress](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/9576870574b5/index.md), 1920
- [Steamship to Sremska Kamenica](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/88ceeb8b511d/index.md), 1920–1941
- [Đačko igralište from the air](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/583e3251c032/index.md), 1936–1941
- [Snow over the river and its bridges](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/6fa742843a5d/index.md), 1940
- [An Abandoned Car by the Wrecked Prince Tomislav Bridge, 6 April 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/5a78a67d4279/index.md), 6 April 1941
- [Civilians Crossing the Pontoon Dock, Novi Sad, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/891df9029693/index.md), 1941
- [Danube Panorama Toward Novi Sad, Bridge in the Foreground](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/24a9590e029a/index.md), by May 1941
- [Five Views of the Demolished Road and Rail Bridges, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/140b0bcaa3cf/index.md), 1941–1945
- [Jewish Forced Labor Servicemen on the March, Novi Sad, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/7acef3430c84/index.md), 1941
- [Petrovaradin Fortress beyond the Broken Railway Bridge](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/720a58659812/index.md), 1941–1944
- [Petrovaradin Fortress beyond the Broken Railway Bridge, a Second Copy](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/f87181e1c3ab/index.md), 1941–1944
- [The Demolished Railway Bridge Below Petrovaradin Fortress, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/bb3cdadd0410/index.md), 1941
- [The Destroyed Railway Bridge, a Church Spire on the Bank, Novi Sad](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/ae7359e9630f/index.md), 1941–1945
- [The Piers of the Blown Railway Bridge, Novi Sad, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/1e4b8937177f/index.md), 1941
- [The Railway Bridge's Last Standing Span, Petrovaradin, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/84b0a43dbefe/index.md), 1941
- [The Wrecked Railway Bridge Over the Danube, Novi Sad, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/95fc36fa1c99/index.md), 1941
- [The destroyed railway bridge, Petrovaradin Fortress beyond](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/eb2786af6916/index.md), by November 1941
- [The destroyed railway bridge, seen from the tracks](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/b40edad10c5b/index.md), by July 1941
- [Waiting at the Danube Dock Below the Ruined Bridge, 1941](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/cac081489088/index.md), 1941
- [A Bridge Pier in the Danube, Petrovaradin Behind, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/7b85bb8461fe/index.md), 1942
- [A Wartime Wooden Trestle Bridge to Petrovaradin, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/9e1bf66d73bc/index.md), by May 1942
- [Five Views: Aircraft Over the River and the Church Tower](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/51f31faa3b82/index.md), by May 1942
- [Piers of the Destroyed Railway Bridge, Petrovaradin Fortress, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/8dbbb230e5ef/index.md), 1942
- [The Fallen Railway Bridge Span, Novi Sad, 1942](https://archive.neusatz.cc/i/6f77d82a2d6e/index.md), 1942

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