Franc Hribernik - Stane

Memorial stone at the empty graveyard is dedicated to Franc Hribernik - Stane. It was unveiled in 1961.

On the night of 30 April to 1 May 1945, the Home Guard captured two couriers of station G-13 a in Bodoveljska Grapa. During the torture, they revealed the camp of station G-15 and the headquarters of the intelligence centre for Škofja Loka, and led the Home Guards, who attacked the sleeping couriers and intelligence officers around 5 o'clock in the morning. Franc Hribernik fell, his sister Francka Hribernik was seriously injured. The others managed to escape safely.

Franc Hribernik was born on 24 October 1918 in Puštalo. Before joining the NOV, he was a carpenter in the Gorenjska Predivnica in Škofja Loka. He was a worker's trust and a member of the Yugoslav Professional Association. He began actively participating in the national liberation movement in the winter of 1941. On 6 June 1943, he joined the Škofjeloška Detachment, where he became an administrator. When the 1st (Tomazev) Battalion of the Gorenjska Detachment was established at the beginning of February 1944, he was the assistant administrator of Ivan Čemažar - Brdavša. After his death on 30 March 1944, he became the battalion administrator. In the autumn of 1944, he was transferred to the intelligence centre in Škofja Loka of the Gorenjska Military District. He performed this work until his death.

He was first buried in Zovšča (Puštalo), where this memorial stone stands. Now he rests in the family grave on the old Škofjeloško cemetery.

Stane Krapež [ed.], Monuments of the National Liberation Struggle in Škofjeloško, Ljubljana: Založba Borec, 1986, p. 254-255.

Note 1:

Stane Hribernik (born in 1940 in Puštalo 9), Puštalo 106, 4220 Škofja Loka, son of the fallen Franc Hribernik - Stane, has repeatedly approached the Škofja Loka ZB with a request to restore the inscription on the stone and to arrange the grave, which had been overgrown with grass. They excused themselves by saying that there are already enough memorials, that the fighter Franc Hribernik - Stane is inscribed on the memorial stone at Brnkova Pstota, that he is not in this grave anymore (he was there only three weeks, when he was buried together with his father on the Škofja Loka City Cemetery), but they also promised that they would restore the inscription. Since this did not happen, he decided about two years ago to take the stone home. He still intends to restore the inscription on it himself (this year), and then place it on a suitable spot somewhere on the grassy surface near his house at Puštalo 106. The plaque above the stone was rusted and is no longer there. (Interview with Stane Hribernik at his home on 11 January 2024)

Guide to Partisan Paths, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 266.