Iški Vintgar - Partizanska bolnišnica Krvavice

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Group of wooden barracks, in which the wounded partisans were treated from July 1942 to autumn 1943. Three barracks (kitchen, hospital room, recovery room) had already been renovated several times, first in 1952 and again in 1966. The planks were discovered in the years 1952 and 1988.

The partisan hospital operated in the barracks at the foot of the cave openings on the steep forested slopes, west of the Vintgar stream.

«Above the Upper Iga, the meadows slope into the cave openings and grapevines, which steeply descend into the Iška valley. Some of the rugged ridges are inaccessible from the top, and the sun shines there only for a few hours, while in others eternal shadow reigns and the wild boars howl. In one of the most wild grapevines, where the water never dries up in the rocky channel, the partisans, in the years when our people's uprising against the occupier had already ignited, set up the hospital, which included: a food storage, an ambulance with six wicker huts, attached to the high wall, a kitchen and a bunker. The secret access to the hospital, via the path leading from Iška to the meadows above Upper Iga, was carefully guarded and concealed. The hospital was led by France Berce.

After the war, the damaged hospital was taken care of by ZSV LRS (Zavod za spomeniško varstvo Ljudske republike Slovenije op. D.D.), which impregnated the wood and the wooden parts. However, time and moisture did their work in a few years. Last year (1966 op. D.D.) the inter-municipal ZSV Ljubljana renewed the wooden objects of the hospital and the wicker huts for the wounded with funds contributed by the former OLO Ljubljana (Občinski ljudski odbor op.: D.D.). All the field material, beams, planks, roof felt and wicker reed straw were brought by the locals from Upper Iga along the fallen wall. They also carried out all the carpentry work on the renewed objects of Berce's partisan hospital and laid the path so that visitors would have an easier access to this mobile object from the time of the revolution.»

Source: Vlasto Kopač, Spomeniki ljudske revolucije, Varstvo spomenikov XI/1966, Zavod za spomeniško varstvo Slovenije, 1967, p. 186

Monuments of our revolution, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1961, p. 36.

Guide through partisan trails, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 62.

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