Zlín

Zlín (named Gottwaldov between 1948 and 1990) is the main city of the area of the same name (Zlínský kraj), in the south-east of the Moravie, in Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice.

History

The first hard copy of Zlín goes back to 1332. It becomes a city in 1397. But it is in 1894 that it will take importance and will develop very quickly thanks to Tomáš Baťa which creates this year a factory of shoes, known today under the name of Bata. The firm inter alia provided the army Austro-Hungarian during the First World War. Baťa in particular will draw the city and will contribute to its growth which will pass from 3.000 to 35.000 inhabitants approximately in a century.

The blazon of the town of Zlín is the work of the painter František Kysela who draws it in 1935 (approval of the ministry for the interior in 1936)

It offered the services of several architects in vogue to build a modern city, and still one of the best examples of functional architecture. His/her son, Thomas, were forced to again leave the country under the pressure of the Nazis in 1939 then after the war when the firm was nationalized (It left for the Canada where it created another company, Batawa).

Zlín was combined in 1948 at several communities of the neighborhoods to form Gottwaldov, according to the name of the first communist president of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gottwald. In 1990, the whole was famous Zlín.

The city is also been the seat of the aeronautical manufacturer éponyme Zlin.

Education

The Université Tomáš Baťa is in Zlín.

Personalities

the playwright Tom Stoppard was born in Zlín
the creator from shoes and businessman Tomáš Baťa was born and marked Zlín
Tomáš Dvořák, old Czech Athlète practitioner the Décathlon.
Romance Hamrlik, born on April 12th 1974
Ivana Trump

Bonds

Université Divided into volumes Bata with Zlín
Zlinternational is a Web site for the students of Zlin and founded by of Erasmus who have themselves studied with universtié Tomas Bata

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