Mörwald, J. Feuerbereit. Kriegstagebuch aus den Karnischen Alpen 1915-17

Published by the Museum 1915-1918 "From the Ortler to the Adriatic" Kötschach-Mauthen.
While still on the way to the front in Galicia, the regiment of the Upper Austrian Josef Mörwald receives orders to turn back. The artillery to which he belongs is now needed in Carinthia. With Italy's declaration of war on Austria in 1915, the Alps and thus the border in Carinthia became a war zone. Mörwald's unit takes up position in the Carnic Alps near the Plöcken Pass - and gets caught up in the fierce fighting around the Cellon and the Kleiner Pal. His descriptions are not only about artillery duels and mutual attacks in the gruelling war of position. He drastically demonstrates the efforts and privations necessary to wage war at all in the high mountains with the omnipresent alpine dangers.

But he also describes moments of waiting and boredom in his notes. He also gives an impression of what it was like behind the front or far away at home during holiday visits. Mörwald's diary is an important contemporary document, it gives an authentic and unadulterated insight into everyday life during the mountain war.
First published as a book, with numerous photos and an introductory text on the history of the Plöcken Pass and the communities at the foot of the Carnic Alps during the years of the First World War. "With Mörwald's diary, a rather unique document has emerged almost a hundred years after the event: The diary of a simple soldier" - Peter Schubert).