In the village cemetery in Dobrla vas / Eberndorf, which is situated on a small hill to the east of the centre of Dobrla vas / Eberndorf, there is a beautiful one and a half metre high stone tombstone on the inside of the wall, just to the right of the entrance gate, telling passers-by that an unknown partisan is buried here. He fell on 9 May 1945 as a scout of the Tomšič Brigade. He was hit by a bullet fired by a member of the SS, who were already on the run and in complete disarray at the time.
The fallen fighter was a flag-bearer in the aforementioned brigade, which had already crossed Dobrla vas / Eberndorf and was continuing its journey towards Sinča vas / Kühnsdorf. There, however, the partisan fighters learned that a battalion of SS had arrived in Dobrla vas / Eberndorf right behind them, and that it had been lying low. In order to be better informed, the Brigade sent a fighter as a bicycle scout, but he was killed by the SS in an ambush on the road in front of Dobrla vas / Eberndorf. Neither the municipal office nor the cemetery administration has his name on record. According to some of the partisan-soldiers, their comrade was originally from Slovenj Gradec.
The first commemorative plaque was destroyed
Initially, only a marble memorial plaque was fixed in the wall above the grave, but one night it was smashed by unknown partisan grave robbers. Immediately afterwards, the locals erected a new cross on top of the mound to mark, at least as an emergency measure, the last home of the unknown hero. The grave itself has been carefully tended over the years.
Now, instead of the ephemeral wooden cross, there is a new, permanent and architecturally beautifully designed monument in the form of an upright square, a stone monolith. It was erected by the Association of Carinthian Partisans in 1970.
Location:
The cemetery lies halfway between Velikovec / Völkermarkt and Žitara vas / Sittersdorf, next to the monastery church in the middle of Dobrla vas / Eberndorf.