Monuments
- Fortress and Monument on Predel
About one kilometre before the Predel Pass, the ruins of an Austrian fortress are still visible. At the beginning of the 19th century a wooden fortification stood here. On May 15th, 1809, bitter fighting took place between Napoleon’s troops and Austrian defenders. The Austrian contingent of defenders was made up of the border guards of Slunj, commanded by Captain Johann von Hermannsdorf. The defenders, despite being outnumbered, ...
more - Monument in the Village of Strmec
The monument evokes the tragedy that befell the village during World War II. On October 10th, 1943, a German retaliatory expedition took their rage out on the villagers, because the Partisans had killed a few German soldiers. The Germans executed 16 men and destroyed and burned the village to the ground. Women and children took refuge with their relatives and friends. At the time of administration by the Allies, from 1945 to 1947, many ...
more - Monument and Military Cemetery in Log pod Mangrtom
Behind the civilian cemetery in Spodnji Log is an Austrian military cemetery from World War I. The valley of the Koritnica was in the rear of the Soča front, hence the cemetery was arranged during the first years of the war. Iron crosses with inscription plaques bearing the names of buried soldiers stand on mounds. The graves are arranged on two terraces, the lower one encircled by spruce and larch trees. At the passage between the two ...
more - Cemetery in Bovec
Two kilometres from Bovec, at the intersection of the Predel and Vršič roads, is a renovated Austrian military cemetery. It contains uniform concrete tombstones with a tau cross in the circle. By the cemetery at the crossroads of the Predel and Vršič roads stands an obelisk made of masoned stone bearing an inscription in German, dedicated to the memory of the Austrian soldiers who fell in the years 1915 to 1917.
- Monument to Dr. Julius Kugy
It stands by the road that climbs over the Vršič Pass. The monument is the work of sculptor Jakob Savinšek and was erected by the Planinska zveza Slovenije (Slovenian Alpine Society) on its 60th anniversary. Dr. Julius Kugy (1858-1944) belongs among the greatest admirers of the Julian Alps and the Trenta Valley He was a lawyer by a profession, but otherwise a humanist who deserves to be labelled as the person who discovered the ...
more - Military Cemetery in Trenta
On the main road, by the civilian cemetery, a World War I military cemetery lies among spruce trees. Here rest the Austrian soldiers who died in the military hospital in Trenta as well as Russian prisoners of war who died during road construction over the Vršič Pass. When the Soča Front was established in 1915, the Austrians needed a transportation link over Vršič in order to supply their troops on the front. They brought about 12,000 ...
more - Military Cemetery in the Village of Soča
Behind the church of St. Joseph and the civilian cemetery stands the cemetery of Austrian soldiers who fell on the Soča Front. Concrete crosses are aligned along the enclosure and a large cross composed of rocks lies above the cemetery. Above it, on a large rock, an artillery shell was placed, representing a simple memorial to the fallen soldiers.
- Memorial Plaque to Mountain Guides in Trenta
It is built into a rock by the road below the botanical garden of Juliana and was dedicated in 1957 by the Planinska zveza Slovenije (Slovenian Alpine Society) to the renowned Trenta mountain guides, the pioneers of Slovenian mountain exploration and alpinism. The Trenta hunters and shepherds became famous mountain guides in the second half of the 19th century, particularly in the period of the exploration of the Julian Alps. Kugy, who ...
more - Monument to the Fallen in the Golobar Campaign
Along the road near the village of Kal-Koritnica stands a monument to the Partisans who fell on the Golobar Pasture in the bitterest campaign of World War II in the Bovec area. On April 26th, 1943, as the Gradnik brigade was being founded, Italian soldiers encircled the Partisans gathered on the Golobar Pasture; in the crossfire 42 fighters fell. Their bodies were dragged to the village of Kal-Koritnica, loaded on trucks at the spot where ...
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