Memorial plaque for Guido Zernatto at the parish church Treffen/Trebinja

At the southern church wall of the parish church in Treffen, directly beneath the sundial, there is a memorial plaque for Guido Zernatto, born in Treffen in 1903, and for his poem "Die Sonnenuhr," published by him in 1933. The politician and writer was active during the Austrofascism for the Heimwehr and as a Federal Cultural Council member and State Secretary for the Patriotic Front, and therefore had to flee from the Nazis in 1938. After several stops, he reached the USA, where he died in 1943 at the age of only 39. His poems written in exile in New York testify to homesickness and inner turmoil.