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From the Early Industrial City Along the Danube to Regional Industrial Heritage - Case Study 2 Bata- Ville, Vukovar, Croatia

Borovo Naselje has been created as a satellite village by “Bata” Shoe Factory between 1931 and 1938, on the outskirts of Vukovar. The settlement is one of the most valuable examples of newly planned towns from the time of early Art Noveau in Central Europe. “Bata-Ville”, as it was officially known, was built in an open undeveloped area along the Danube according to the established model in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, where the headquarters of this international corporation were. The plan of the settlement and the buildings projects were made by three Czech architects: František Lydie Gahura, Vladimír Karfík, and Antonin Vitek. In 1936, Bata-Ville had 122 buildings, 421 apartments with 1, 818 inhabitants. The small industrial settlement presented innovations in urban planning, building construction technology, and public services. Thus, a workers’ restaurant, an electric power plant, a stadium, a sports airport, a cinema, a social home, a primary school, a school for students in nature, and a vocational school was built in the area around the factory. The settlement was infrastructurally equipped above the average, including the detailed planning of green infrastructure in the interspace of residential buildings. The protection of the settlement as a cultural asset was adopteded by a decision of the Ministry of Culture in 2011 and part of the residential buildings were renovated according to original designs and shapes and the value of the complex have been recognized and presented.

Bata Ville, industrial heritage, DANUrB

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