In the cemetery of the extensive village in Podjuna / Jauntal, a stone monument with an inscription in both regional languages stands next to the cemetery wall:
To the Partisans who fell in the struggle against fascism 1941 - 1945 /
Franc Hobel, Ignac Žolnir
Franc Hobel, known as Rojakov, from Pogrče pri Šentvidu / Pogerschitzen bei St. Veit, was born on 27 April 1914 and died in Lobnik / Lobnig on 20 April 1944. Ignac Žolnir was born on 27 December 1912 in Slovenj Gradec; he was a member of the intelligence centre of the Kokrška-Detachment and was killed on 9 February 1945. Four sons of the Rojak family were killed in the war, three of them as partisans. A daughter was taken to the notorious Ravensbrück concetration camp. Immediately after the end of the war, the Rojaks placed a plaque on their grave with the inscription:
Here rest Franc Hobel, born on 27 April 1914;
Feliks Hobel, born 21 Aug. 1924, killed in action 12 Feb. 1944, buried in Malošče / Mallestig;
Anton Hobel, born on 20 January 1927, killed in action on 26 November 1944, buried in Malošče / Mallestig.
You heroically survived the relentless battle;
your blood soaked the earth that now covers you;
now your portion shall be peace in God,
may the heavenly light shine upon you.
Also their comrade Žolnir Ignac awaits the day of resurrection here,
fallen in February 1945, 32 years old, at home from Celje.
May our earth be light to him.
The stone slab was embedded with three medallion paintings of the Hobles brothers buried here. Two of them are still preserved, the third one no longer exists.
In 2012, a memorial plaque was also attached to the cemetery walls in Šentvid v Podjuni / St. Veit im Jauntal, to the mother and daughter Tereza Mičej, who were accused by the Nazis of repeatedly providing accommodation and food to the partisans. On 12 January 1945, they were executed in Gradec / Graz. Partisan activists from this very village were important links between the Slovenian and Austrian resistance: for example, in addition to the Mičej family, the Ročičjakovs and others who maintained a link to Ettendorf to the resistance of Labotska dolina / Lavanttal . Until they were betrayed …
An island of remembrance also for Janez Wutte-Luc
Not far from the cemetery in Šentvid v Podjuni / St. Veit im Jauntal is the cemetery of Šentprimož / St. Primus, where Janez Wutte-Luc, a Slovene national worker and partisan, has his personal memorial. The deceased was born on 26 December 1918 in Vesele / Vesielach and died in 2002. After finishing elementary school, he worked on the local farm. Before the outbreak of the war he was involved in the struggle for the national rights of the Carinthian Slovenes, after the Anschluss in 1938 he was mobilised in the German Wehrmacht, where he joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement. In April 1944, after a leave of absence, he joined the Carinthian partisan units and worked as an activist in the Velikovec / Völkermarkt district of the Liberation Front OF.
After the war, he worked to promote the rights of the Slovenes of Carinthia, which was very difficult during the British occupation (1945-1955), when he was arrested and imprisoned twice for his political activities. In 1965-1972 and 1979-1982 he was vice-president and secretary of the Association of Slovene Organisations, and in 1988-1997 he was president of the Association of Carinthian Partisans. He received several decorations, including the Badge of Honour for the Liberation of Austria.
Location:
Šentvid v Podjuni / St. veit im Jauntal is situated in a fairly quiet location on the provincial road between Kamen / Stein and Šentprimož / St. Primus.