Monument to the Domnove Company at Komlje

At Cimprc, above the house, there is a granite rock with an inscription in memory of the fallen fighters against the Nazi units. The monument was unveiled by the Association of Carinthian Partisans in May 1972. In the middle of the rock, there is an inscription in both regional languages. In October of 1976, unknown perpetrators blew up the monument, but in May of 1978, the Association of Carinthian Partisans placed a new memorial stone.

At Komlje, 12 fighters of Domen's squad fell in battle against the Nazi units, among them 10 Carinthian partisans. On 12 October 1944, German gendarmes and local guards, after the betrayal of a local inhabitant, surrounded Apovnik's house on Komlje, where Ciril Šorli – Domen often stopped with his courier unit (Domen's squad). The attackers shot at a group of 14 partisans, then captured, tortured them and threw them into the fire of the burning house and outbuildings. At that time, 12 partisans lost their lives, while two managed to escape.

In August 1980, the Association of Carinthian Partisans and the Slovenian Enlightenment Society Edinost in Pliberk organized the first memorial hike to Komlje in memory of the massacre of Domen's squad at Apovnik. Today, the "Hike along the Paths of Domen's Squad" is organized every year, usually on the second Sunday in July. Around 1,000 visitors come to the memorial celebrations, many of them from Slovenia.

Along the paths of the cultural heritage of Carinthia in the Municipality of Prevalje and the City Municipality of Pliberk: monograph / Auf den Wegen des Kärntner Kulturerbes in der Gemeinde Prevalje und der Stadtgemeinde Bleiburg: Monographie. Bleiburg, Prevalje: Municipality 2006, p. 85.

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Category:Monuments and memorials to Partisans in Carinthia. Wikimedia Commons.

Islands. Komlje.