Otrokovice
Otrokovice ( German Otrokovice ) is an industrial city in the Czech Republic. It is located ten kilometers west of Zlin at the confluence of Mojena and Dřevnice in the March and belongs to Okres Zlín.
Geography
The city is located northeast of Mars Mountains and northwest of the Vizovice mountain country at the junction of Moravian Slovakia, Moravian Wallachia and Hanna. By Otrokovice leads the state road 55 between Přerov and Napajedla which 49 branches off from the Zlín in place. At the northern edge of the recreation area is Štěrkoviště.
Neighboring towns are Skály Tlumačov, Terezov and Machová in the north, and Sazovice Lhotka in the northeast, and Tečovice Malenovice in the east, and Kvítkovice Oldrichovice the southeast, Pohořelice and Napajedla in the south, and Žlutava Bělov in the west and Kvasice in the northwest.
History
Otrokovice 1141 was first written records in a deed of the Olomouc bishop Jindřich Zdík. In the mid-14th century it was passed to secular owners and became part of the dominion Malenovice. 1570, a separate seat of power was established in Otrokovice and four years later the construction of a fortress was.
As John of Rottalblick 1649 Otrokovice acquired and combined with the rule Napajedl, the fort was abandoned and rebuilt about 1667 to a castle. 1767 was the conversion of the plant to storage. After the Rottalern followed the Kobenzl, the Counts of Pécs and the Lords of Stockau. On 18 July 1841, the first train of the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway between Lundenburg and Prerau to Otrokovice perverted past, a railroad stop was the place in 1882.
1843, the place had 804 inhabitants and consisted of 132 houses. In Kvítkovice were at this time 55 houses in which 363 people lived. In both villages, agriculture provided the livelihood dar. 1845 was built on the farm Terezov a distillery. After the replacement of patrimonial Otrokovice 1848 an independent village.
After Aristide's Baltazzi and his wife Marie, born of Stockau had established a breeding stallion in Napajedl 1884, served her large estates in Otrokovice primarily as grazing land for the precious animals.
In 1899, the Chapel of St. Anne. In the same year, the private local railway Otrokovice - Zlin - Wisowitz was inaugurated, which passed into public ownership in 1906. Due to regular flood damage in 1906 rivers Morava and Dřevnice between Bělov, Otrokovice and Napajedla were regulated.
At the beginning of the 20th century settled increasingly in the former farming village artisans. The good traffic situation at node two frequented Railroads led to the establishment of industries. 1930 he acquired the Zlín shoe manufacturer Bata Tomáš by Marie Baltazzi the marshy area between March and Dřevnice. Bata was located on the other side of Mars in March Mountain Hill Tresny soil bloat on the Morastboden and increased its level by one to four meters. On the former swampland the industrial area Baťov was applied in the branch plants of the Bata company and the aircraft manufacturer Zlin found their place. In addition to the commercial area in the plans of the architect František Lydie Gahura and Vladimír Karfík was a settlement for the employees. Tomáš Bata not live to see the completion, he died in 1932 in Baťov the crash of his aircraft. Center of the settlement Baťov was erected 1933-1936 Community home with the floor plan of a three -bladed propeller. By the year 1938, the population grew to around 8000.
Kvítkovice was incorporated in 1960 and was granted city rights in 1964 Otrokovice. In 1966 the construction of the Barum tire plant, which started production in 1972 and now operates under the name Continental Barum was. Thus began a rebound in town, whose population by 1990 exceeded 20,000. In the 1970s and 1980s was an urban redevelopment and the construction of new building blocks as the center place of the old village Otrokovice. It lost all the old buildings.
After 1990, an architectural redesign of the uniform slab began in the city center. In 1995, the new St. Adalbert's Church was consecrated in 1997 and the Cultural Otrokovická Beseda.
Local structure
The Otrokovice consists of the districts Kvítkovice ( Kwitkowitz ) and Otrokovice ( Otrokovice ). The town also includes the local situation Bahňák, bearing the name Baťov earlier.
Attractions
- Former community house, now a hotel
- St. Adalbert's Church, consecrated in 1995
- Monument to Tomáš Bata in the park