Two unidentified partisans lie buried in the cemetery on the bank above the church. They fell in July 1944 fighting Nazi soldiers. The first one near Štornik, the second one in the Dušnjak forest above the church at Žingarica / Singerberg. They were temporarily buried by their fellow soldiers, Gregor Obilčnik from Strugarje / Strugarjach and Marjan, Piseljnov-Roki. Only after the end of the war were they buried in the cemetery in Slovenj Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg. The original tombstone was erected by the surviving local partisans. The inscription on the plaque reads:
Two unknown Slovenian partisans, freedom fighters, rest here.
May they rest in peace!
A very beautiful tombstone, measuring 145 cm in width and 85 cm in height, is now placed along the upper cemetery wall. It is carved from white Istrian stone, with a shallow symbolic relief on the front. The inscription is in both regional languages, as is the case with all the other newly erected tombstones:
To the fallen partisans 1941-1945
/ Rozalija Lapajne /
Two unknown partisans
Rozalija Lapajne, a fallen partisan, born 19 August 1923 in Koprivna, shot 2 August 1944 in Krnice, should also be buried in the cemetery in Slovenj Plajberk, but her body was swept away by a rising torrent and it was never found. Rozalija Lapajne was a hospital orderly of the 1st Battalion of the West-Carinthian association.
In 1985, the Association of Carinthian Partisans erected an additional memorial to the victims of Nazi violence in Slovenj Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg, near the Šošel homestead (not far from the parish cemetery).
Location:
If you drive from Celovec / Klagenfurt towards Ljubel / Loiblpass, turn right at the first higher ridge towards Poden / Bodental. Not far from the turnoff, the area of the former municipality of Slovenji Plajberk / Windisch Bleiberg starts, where you reach the church and cemetery on the right - after the former school building.