Memorial plaque for Franc Pasterk – Lenart at Tavčmanhof

The Tavčmanhof in the Lobniggraben near Bad Eisenkappel/Železna Kapla is the birthplace of Franc and Jurij Pasterk. Both brothers played an important role in the resistance against fascism. Jurij Pasterk founded together with Karel Prušnik-Gašper the first committee of the Liberation Front in Carinthia. He was arrested by the Gestapo in the autumn of 1942 and beheaded together with 12 other people from Zell, Ebriach and Eisenkappel in April 1943 in Vienna. Franc Pasterk-Lenart joined the partisans after his desertion from the Wehrmacht in October 1942. In the spring of 1943, Lenart became commander of the first Carinthian partisan battalion. After a successful attack on 3 April 1943 on the village of Mieß (Mežica, in today's Slovenia), he died seriously injured. Every year in the spring, the partisan association holds a commemorative event at the cemetery in Eisenkappel, and in the autumn, a walk in his honor takes place, which also passes by his birthplace. The commemorative plaque for both brothers, installed in 1959, was restored in 2022.