Memorial plaque for Franc Pasterk Lenart at the cemetery Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla

At the base of the memorial for the victims of the NS regime in the municipality of Bad Eisenkappel, located in the lower part of the cemetery near the cemetery entrance on the right side, there is a relief depicting the face of Franc Pasterk-Lenart. Born in 1912, Franc Pasterk-Lenart grew up at the Tavčmanhof in Lobnig near Eisenkappel. Together with his brother Jurij Pasterk, he was one of the first in Eisenkappel to join the Liberation Front (OF). After deserting the Wehrmacht, he joined the partisans in October 1942. In the spring of 1943, Lenart became the commander of the first Carinthian partisan battalion. During a successful attack on April 3, 1943, on the village of Mieß (Mežica, in today's Slovenia), an unknown armed person seriously wounded Pasterk, causing him to die shortly afterwards. In Eisenkappel, he is revered — like Matija Verdnik-Tomaž in Suetschach — as a folk hero. Every year on the Sunday following Easter Sunday, in reference to his date of death, the partisan association holds a commemorative ceremony at the cemetery in Eisenkappel.