Austro-Hungarian military cemetery WW1, Renče- Žigoni

 

The Austro-Hungarian military cemetery is situated close to the road between Renče and Žigoni. Most of the buried deceased in the nearby military hospital, where they treated infectious diseases (Epidemiespital). According to the data of Italian authorities, which in the 1930s lead the organization of military cemeteries, 704 people are buried here (370 of whom are unknown), among them also many civilians, evidence of which is a tombstone to Doroteja Cotič of Dornberk. The known soldiers mainly belonged to the K.u.K. Infanterieregiment N°46, (Imperial and Royal Infantry Regiment N°46), from the conscript area of Szeged in Hungary, and from different working units. Most of the unknown soldiers were transferred to this cemetery from other cemeteries near Renče and Špacapani.

Behind the central monument, several tens of tomb crosses dating from the 1920s and 1930s are fixed to the west wall.

 

November 2025