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Loga vas / Augsdorf

In the cemetery of Loga vas / Augsdorf, a modest concrete gravestone stood until 1970 with the inscription:

Here rests Vincenc Moser, born 20 May 1911, died 14 July 1943
and his comrade Janez N., partisans, both hit by enemy bullets.
May our Slovenian soil be easy for them!

There is now a 150 centimetre high obelisk on the site. The inscription, carved in both regional languages, reads:

To the Partisans who fell in the struggle against fascism 1941-1945
Vincenc Moser and fighter Janez

Vincenc Moser-Zvonček was a native of Vienna, but during the war he lived in Carinthia, in Loče ob Dravi / Latschach an der Drau, with the farmer Poklič. He was hiding for some time before going to the partisans, probably in April 1943. He had previously served in the German army, and was last treated in a military hospital in Klagenfurt for a wound received in Russia. He was the first partisan from other parts of Austria, 32 years old and the father of four children; before the war he was a bricklayer and for a while worked for the railway.
The second partisan buried next to Moser is Franc Kavčič-Tomo, born 29 January 1924 in Železniki, son of a peasant. He had been involved with the Liberation Front OF since 1941. He joined the partisans on the first days of January 1943, otherwise he would have had to join the German army. At first Moser and Kavčič were buried behind the cemetery wall in Šentjakob / St. Jakob, but in 1946 Moser's widow had the remains of both buried in the cemetery in Loga vas / Augsdorf.

Location:
Loga vas / Augsdorf lies slightly south above the resort of Vrba / Velden and is best reached by following the road towards Škofiče / Schiefling.