Graveyard of the Talce and fallen Borčev Radeče

All seventeen victims – the talci were brought (no documents) from the Trbovlje prison. The occupier shot them on 23 March 1945 on the way from the cemetery towards the Sava (where the memorial stands) and then buried them on the bank of the Sava. Later, the victims were exhumed and reburied in graves in the park, and in 1956 they were reburied on the cemetery in Radeč.

The reason for the shooting of the talci was supposed to be the liquidation of Tirolc Meier, a farmer who had taken over the farm of Fran Kozinc on the New Castle. Meier was supposedly following couriers from the relay courier post TV 5A, who had a route passing by Brunk, by the New Castle, by Gorelc into the valley towards Vrhovo, across the Sava, to the settlement Okroglice below Lovrenc to the relay courier station S 5. A group from the military courier station 1 – 23 shot him under the chapel on Gorelc while he was returning with his wife from Radeč. He did not want to stop the horses, but instead spurred his horse into a gallop towards the New Castle. They shot at them and killed him. His neighbor from the settlement Nežen Tirolc Lenger immediately fled back to Tyrol.

The current appearance of the grave was entrusted to the sculptor Rudij Stopar from Sevnica and Kamnoseštvu Jakša from Krškega by the Local Organisation ZB Radeče, and was unveiled on the newly designed grave during the municipal holiday in 2002. In the center of the memorial plate there is a hole of diameter fi 200 mm, into which a star of irregular shape is inserted, symbolizing the golden flower with six petals (made from glass red inserts).