This spring, on the Austrian Carinthian territory, in the Iron Chapel, near her birthplace, botanist, initiator of nature conservation, advocate of women's rights, champion of a just society and prisoner in the Ravensbrück camp, Dr. Angela Piskernik received her memorial plaque on the wall of the parish hall. The unveiling took place on 29th May 2015, and on the plaque, as initiators, are listed the Slovene Enlightenment Society Zarja from the Iron Chapel, the Club of Carinthian Slovenes in Ljubljana, and the Club 99. The plaque was designed by the Carinthian Slovenian architect and visual artist Mag. Karl Vouk. In the background, among gently green leaves of the primordial tree, is a portrait of the young Angele, who left these roots to go into the world of science and culture.

Nada Praprotnik: Memorial Plaque for Angela Piskernik. 2015

Angela Piskernik was born on 27 August 1886 in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla. The Carinthian Slovene earned her doctorate at the University of Vienna and made a career as a botanist. Due to her engagement for the Slovene minority in Carinthia, she was arrested by the National Socialists in 1943 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. After her return in 1945, she became Director of the Natural History Museum in Ljubljana and continued to engage in nature conservation and transboundary national parks until her death in 1967. In 2015, a memorial plaque designed by Karl Vouk was installed on the outer wall of the parish office in Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla, her hometown, in her memory.