Adlešiči, sculpture of a courier

Date of discovery: 7.8.1983

Author: Sculptor Jaka Rozman Kranjc

Installer: Association of Fighters Ljubljana

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»ADLEŠIČI - On Sunday, 7th of August, a traditional meeting of internees and war invalids will take place in Adlešiči.

At the ceremony, which will begin at 4 p.m., fighters and couriers from the affiliated Croatian local community Prilišče – Vukova Gorica (who, during the war, maintained a courier link between Slovenia and Croatia) will unveil a statue of a partizan courier, the work of sculptor Janez Krajnc, in front of the cultural house; the statue was donated to the people of Adlešiči by the residents of the affiliated local community Stara Ljubljana.«

Author not mentioned, Adlešiči invite /On Sunday, traditional meeting of internees and war invalids/, Dolenjski list, Year XXXIV, no. 31 (1773), Novo mesto, Thursday, 4th of August 1983, front page. Electronic source: Dolenjski list, no. 31, 1983, front page Access: 23. 2. 2024.

»In memory of the courier route, along which during the war peasant boys and men maintained important links between Slovenian and Croatian partizan units, a monument to a courier, the work of artist Janez Krajnc, which was donated to the people of Adlešiči by the residents of Stara Ljubljana, was unveiled in front of the Adlešič cultural house. The courier routes, which passed through Adlešiči and further along the current partizan highway, were among the main links for the coordinated actions between the main staff of the NOV and the PO of Slovenia and Croatia and the supreme staff of the NOV and the PO of Yugoslavia.«

B. M. Memory of the courier route /Meeting of internees and war invalids in Adlešiči - Unveiling the statue of a courier, a gift from Stara Ljubljana/, Dolenjski list, Year XXXIV, no. 32, Novo mesto, Thursday, 11th of August 1983, front page. Electronic source: Dolenjski list, no. 32, 1983, front page Access: 23. 2. 2024.

Note: In the literature, two forms of the sculptor's surname are mentioned: (Jaka Rozman) KRANJC and (Janez) KRAJNC.