The village cemetery has a central monument to Tomaž Žerjav, Jožef Koren and Andrij Ogris. The latter, a native of Bilčovs / Ludmannsdorf, and five other partisans also have a joint memorial in Vrba / Velden; the first two have a separate gravestone each, erected by the relatives of the deceased.
On the first of these tombstones it says:
Here rests our unforgotten son and brother Jožef Koren,
born 5 August 1930, died 11 May 1945.
In the flower of your youth, you were hit by an enemy bullet,
your young life was sacrificed for the nation.
Therefore, may God be thy wage-earner, rejoice in God now and enjoy glory for ever.
We remain your bereaved parents.
On the second tombstone:
Tomaž Žerjav, a partisan born in Mojstrana, rests here,
died in battle with the police on 10 May 1944 for the freedom of his homeland.
You sacrificed your life for your homeland so that we might live.
Glory to you!
Tomaž Žerjav, whose grave is in the western part of the cemetery, was killed in a battle with the Nazi police half an hour's walk from the village of Mala gora / Großkleinberg, on the path leading over the Preseka saddle. Jožef Koren, known as Peželnov from Kajzaze / Edling, was a victim of the gangs that retreated through Carinthia when the German Reich collapsed, robbing and killing even after the end of the Second World War. The most bloodthirsty were the White Guard gangs, who particularly persecuted the partisan units in Carinthia. Koren, only 15 years old, was killed in front of a blacksmith in Humberk / Hollenburg, where he was standing on partisan guard.
Also buried in the cemetery of Bilčovs / Ludmannsdorf is the prominent Slovene cultural and political worker Janko Ogris, born in Ljubljana 31 October 1898, died 8 December 1981, the last elected mandate-holder of the Slovenian national community in the Regional Assembly between the two wars.
Location:
The old cemetery is located in the very centre of Bilčovs / Ludamnnsdorf, on the right side of the road if you are on your way from Kotmara vas / Köttmannsdorf in the direction of Vrba / Velden.
Recommended:
Malle, Avguštin (urednik.): Janko Ogris. Življenje in delo. Drava založba, Celovec 2001.
Andrej Mohar: Ponosni na prednike/Stolz auf die Vorfahren. Globus Verlag, Dunaj 2018.