Eberstein (

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: ''Svinec'') is a town in the district of

Sankt Veit an der Glan St. Veit an der Glan () is a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia, the administrative centre of the St. Veit an der Glan District. It was the historic Carinthian capital until 1518. The famous chef Wolfgang Puck was born there ...

in the

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n state of

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Geography

The municipality lies in the central Görtschitz valley at the foot of the Saualpe.

World War II

Peter Pearson tells a story about the region on the BBC Website "WW2 People's War". He says that Signal Platoon of HQ Company 5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters came from Italy into Eberstein, Austria in 1945, and that it was

''Somewhere in the area between St Viet and Neumark we eventually came to a stop in an idyllic picturesque village called Eberstein. It was the sort of place you see on Austrian postcards with a clear sparkling river (complete with trout) and green meadows full of wild flowers, and cows with tinkling bells round their necks. There was a castle here known as Schloss Eberstein.''

He goes on to describe the surrender at Eberstein of 30,000 Cossack troops, with 20,000 horses, who had been fighting on the Axis side, many of whom he describes as Ukrainian. They were eventually turned over to the Red Army at

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as part of the Repatriation of Cossacks after WWII.

References

Cities and towns in Sankt Veit an der Glan District {{Carinthia-geo-stub