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Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec

velkavrh19. 04. 2014 13:34:02

Under Krvavec above the mountain village Štefana gora there is a beautifully arranged path along NOB monuments. Start is before the village. Along the forest path also used for timber hauling, signposts direct us to the first two points. To the right soon branches off the path to Krvavec along the old gondola cableway route. Somewhere in between a signpost shows the grave of an unknown partisan. We go nicely along the beautiful forest path further towards Davovec. The path is marked. Mainly up to Davovec it is cleared of ice storm consequences. In the Davovec area there was a large high-alpine farm with a large house and even two barns. Behind the forest they burned it during WWII for collaboration with partisans. It was never rebuilt. Today only ruins remind of it. Further the path leads to the Comradeship Memorial Park. The park arrangement pleasantly surprised my wife and me. They will clean the path from Davovec further. Currently they moved the path route a bit downward. But it is well traceable. From the park we can go down to the lower gondola parking - the path is quite steep or return the same way back. The path from the starting point before Štefana gora village is not too steep, nor too long - we walk about one hour one way.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec We can park the vehicle at the parking lot by the lower station of the gondola lift.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Or we drive to the starting point before the village. Here by the road we leave the vehicle.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Soon the first point awaits us on the right side under the path - monument to the grave of the unknown partisan.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Here it is.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Along this path we go to Davovec or midway right to Krvavec. By the right path we reach the upper cable car station.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec The path is pleasant - not steep at all.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec We follow the red stars on the trees.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Very soon we arrive at Davovec - there are ruins of a burned farm. There a smaller building is still used as some kind of storage.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Beside the ruins is a building - but it is quite abandoned - a pity. It is still visible that they tended a small garden.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec The ruins of a fairly large building are to the left of the approach direction. A monument will be placed on the wall of the ruins. Currently the ruins are full of fallen trees.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Signs and stars guide us to the park.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Below the path we spot another recreational building.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Past a spring - here we can quench our thirst.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec We arrive at Davovec pasture.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec View into the valley.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Towards the park.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Exemplarily arranged park.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Panoramic description of the path.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Well-arranged panel.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec We have a logbook for entries and a brochure about the events here during WWII.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec We can sit down and surrender to thoughts about the great sacrifices - too much blood spilt.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec This arrow directs us to the temporary section of the path back to Davovec.

Comradeship Memorial Park - Davovec Or we go directly down to the parking lot in front of the lower station of the gondola cableway.

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ijik3021. 04. 2014 00:30:06

The path can continue above the former homestead to the Davovec saddle, then right to the Brezovica cemetery where fighters of the second group of detachments and the Krvavac unit are buried. At this star-shaped monument, keep right on the forest road and continue on the marked partisan path to the SE part of Krvavec via the Trdovnik ridge. The path is not hard, just a bit longer than the usual one to the western part of Krvavec.

Map of the new partisan path that leads you along old hunting trails.

from Trdovnik at 1400 meters we cross to the first-most preserved alpine pasture of Krvavca Vrtače-(local name),then we can decide,right to alpine pasture Jezerca,straight to Kriška pl...

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ijik3017. 05. 2014 04:30:04

If you come from the Kokra valley to Davovec saddle (930m), turn left towards Brezovica cemetery and on to Krvavec, right to the small hill Kopa (1024m) and along the ridge to Možjanca. The trail is not marked but well trodden and easy to follow..

Davovec saddle 930m ... intersection of directions - hiking paths

Kopa 1024m... on the top there is a stone cairn and a tin plate...

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ijik3028. 05. 2014 16:10:27

At Davovec there is always something new, such as the larch gutter at the fountain, which is between the former homestead and Memorial Park near the gondola route, otherwise at the same height. Nearby there is also a small circle to fill clean spring water that tastes of the forest....

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ijik3023. 07. 2014 13:51:48

At the starting point for Davovec near the lower station of the Krvavec gondola cable car, the old tourist panel has been renewed these days, which was set up in the early eighties of the last century. In pictures it presents natural, mainly cultural sights from our recent history, next to it there is also a map on which the points of interest are marked and of course the paths leading to them to Davovec and Krvavec.

The old tourist panel is in very poor condition

Renovated tourist panel, 50m along the road above the lower gondola station at Krvavec (at the bend)

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ijik307. 05. 2015 11:56:13

West of the Davovec saddle at the top of Kopa 1024m there is now a mounted box and added summit book.

Introductory greeting to hikers and short description of events from NOB

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ijik3015. 05. 2015 03:13:01

West of Kopa we continue the path along the ridge and after 30 min. we reach a slightly lower summit named Skutman 911m, right below it is Kokrška planina from which there is a nice view into the Kokra valley and to SW and NW. The trail is initially well trodden, in the second part where it continues along the ridge it is less visible, but with a little orientation there shouldn't be problems.

Kokrska planina ridge - view to the west

Kokrska planina ridge - view to the north

velkavrh15. 05. 2015 07:03:18

Ivan, I regularly follow your contributions and I'm actually enthusiastic about your dedication, which I don't see anywhere else. Praise! But nowhere on the maps have I come across the name Kokrška planina. Is it just called that or is it a real alpine pasture? I research alpine pastures and this year I'm continuing in the Jezersko area.

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ijik3015. 05. 2015 11:47:33

Branko, thanks for the praise...
You won't find the name Kokrška planina on the map, that's what the locals from Štefanja gora call it. Over 80 years ago the Štefanci dug sand there for building houses in Štefanja gora and the sand pit is still visible near the ridge. I know the alpine pasture from my childhood and I remember 20 years ago it was already quite overgrown, a few years ago hunters partially cleared the bushes. Nowadays they mow it and use it for feeding game. ...Until last week, when I took it upon myself to clear the trail, access from the Kopa side from the branch on the ridge was extremely difficult due to branches and treetops lying on the ground from last year's ice storm....

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ijik3029. 02. 2016 10:07:27

Panorama of SPT Davovec and the path of the 2nd group of detachments from the Kokra river to Kamniška Bistrica.

ijik3017. 06. 2016 08:26:10

Memorial plaque on the top of Kopa 1024m. The monument was erected by SPT Davovec. Enthusiasts, artists from the Kranj area solemnly baptized it with the Davovec friends' hike on 11.6.2016.

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ijik3017. 06. 2016 09:10:45

From now on there is a summit book on the top of Skutman 911m, which was added during the Davovec friends' hike on 11.6.2016.

ijik3017. 06. 2016 09:33:46

Memorial plaque and partisan statue (work of KR artists) in the Davovec Memorial Park.

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SilvestrO18. 06. 2016 15:51:12

ijik30, since your contributions don't have the essence of a hiking trail, I can't help but add that these units were very successful before that also in Dolenjska, as they killed more than 60 civilians per month...............(commander Stane was a real hero..., they removed him themselves)...etc.

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ijik3030. 04. 2017 19:45:03

Črna near Kamnik (restoration of the abandoned monument) SKALA
Along the regional road Kamnik-Črnivec-Gornji grad below Velika planina at the start of the elongated village Podstudenec a rock protrudes behind the first hairpin, which at first glance was just an ordinary rock, partially overgrown with hazel bushes. So my friend and I stopped at this bend for the first time a few months ago, parked by the road and closely inspected this monument. Interesting! A dirty granite stone without a visible inscription and a concrete base overgrown with moss really looked like a protruding natural rock - a rock that is abandoned and dedicated to the first fighter and national hero Peter Stante-Skala, who fatally crashed here in a traffic accident in 1980. Immediately I recall that Peter Stante-Skala was also deputy commander of the 2nd group of detachments and led the fighters across Davovec in 1942. ,,This needs restoring, I thought, and right away in spring before the bushes turn green! Well, this restoration came to mind on the day our comrades and patriots in Jelenov žleb near Ribnica revive memories of the partisan battle, where right-wing extremists committed a crime against the monument and Slovenian culture a month ago. So on Saturday 25.3.2017 in the morning we load the old Renault 5 with tools from A to Z, everything needed, and drive east for the outing, stopping in Kamnik on the way to buy snacks and detergent for cleaning the rock. So we arrive at the place where the abandoned monument will be restored. ,,Let's go step by step with the work: First soak the monument, meanwhile saw the overgrown bushes, dig moss from the concrete base, dig a path and steps for access. It goes well from the start, so in a few hours we did more than we thought we could manage that day, namely once the monument was cleaned-washed it dried quickly on the sunny side, so I could soon get to writing the inscription, while comrade Ljuba took the military shovel and went to dig some flowers somewhere. I was curious what flowers would grow at this monument from now on, when suddenly I spot her with a whole bunch of daffodils with moss and bulbs included, which she dug up somewhere behind the stream. This good work finished simultaneously for us, me with the inscription on the monument, her with arranging the surroundings and planting daffodils. In the end we just couldn't stop admiring the change and beauty of the monument, which means a lot for our history.
Ivan Krivec

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ijik3025. 07. 2018 16:57:46

Another forgotten monument to fallen partisans and shot locals has been freely restored. The weather played a bit of a trick, first a shower, right at the end a thunderstorm. But we quickly managed and made a roof over the monument. This marker is under the eastern slope of Krvavec on the Kamnik side, in the hamlet Zakal-across Roja.... The inscription on this rock was no longer visible, good thing we transcribed the text on paper last winter when we cleaned it of algae and lichen. In the end we decorated it with a quick-made ikebana of flowers growing nearby and a pedestal of birch trunks..... So, the matter is behind us and the monument solved, we are happy....

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zlatica25. 07. 2018 17:23:08

Ivan, you had quite a lot of work, since the text is long. Praise to both for restoring the monument that was decaying.

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ijik3027. 07. 2018 21:15:27

zlatica, lately the writing on monuments is going well for me, I've trained, and I also figured out how cleaning goes faster.

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ijik3023. 02. 2019 21:22:40

Leaflet

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ijik3025. 02. 2020 19:58:43

To the Davovec Memorial Park I would also add the excavation of the foundations of Kamen Castle in my native village Adergas, specifically one of the castle rooms 5x8 with a large space inside. The outer wall is 160cm thick, the inner 110cm. I started uncovering the rubble-moss in Feb. 2015, continued last year 2019 and marked access paths-signposts and info board on site. This year I continue with excavating walls and corners.