Execution Site at Kreuzbergl

About 200 meters west of the observatory at Kreuzbergl was a shooting range, which was used by the Austrian Federal Army as a training shooting range during the post-war decades. During the NS regime, death sentences of military jurisdiction were carried out here, with at least 16 executions between September 1944 and May 1945 documented in the records of the cemetery administration in Klagenfurt. The victims were buried at the Annabichl cemetery, exhumed in the mid-1970s, and reburied at the newly established Soldiers' Cemetery St. Veit an der Glan. The execution site at Kreuzbergl, located in the recreational area of the Klagenfurt residents, was never designated as a memorial site. Today, the former shooting range is unused, and the buildings are in disrepair.