Delnice - Memorial Stele in Delnicah

Memorial stele in Delnic is dedicated to the fallen couriers of station G-5 and the inhabitants of Delnic, who enabled the operation of this extremely important station. The monument in the center of the village was unveiled in September 1956.

The courier station G-5 of the first relay line operated in the area of Gabrška Gora and Delnic from 1942 to 1945. Couriers connected stations from Bukov Vrh in Poljanska Dolina to Studenska Grapa in Selška Dolina. The area was very dangerous, and the station lost a third of its members.

The inhabitants of Delnic have fully participated in the People's Liberation Army and the partisans from the very beginning of the people's uprising, so the enemies called them «little Moscow». During the war, one out of every six residents of Delnic gave their life for freedom.

Source: Stane Krapež, ed., Monuments of the People's Liberation Struggle in Škofjeloško, Ljubljana: Borec, 1986, pp. 81-83.

Link to the website: http://zbnobskofjaloka.weebly.com/delnice.html

Monuments of Our Revolution, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 1961, p. 113.

Guide to Partisan Paths, Ljubljana: Borec, 1978, p. 253.

The courier command at PK ZKS for Gorenjska established the I. Gorenjska relay line: Dolomiti-Butajnova-Kolobocija-Polkjanska Dolina-Gabrška Gora-Krivo Brdo-Martinj Vrh-Podlonk-Jelovica. However, the first TV stations in Gorenjska were already established in July 1942, namely G 5 in Gabrška Gora above the village of Delnice-Poljanska Dolina. At the same time, G 7 was established on the hill of Bačni in the village of Todraž, G 3 on Martinj Vrh, and G 1 in Podlonk near Železniki. In memory of these stations, the surviving couriers unveiled the monument in the village of Delnic last year (1956-op. D.D.). Why was G 5 here throughout the entire war and why did all the people here also cooperate with the partisans. These stations were never discovered by the Germans, even though they were only a few meters above the village and all the inhabitants knew about them. This is the first monument erected in memory of couriers in Slovenia; perhaps even in Yugoslavia.        Source: Borec, no. 1 - year IX - January 1957

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