Zlín - Lesní hřbitov, Czech Republic Established at the
beginning of the 1930s according to the design of architect F.
L. Gahura. The initial idea comes from Dr. R. Gerbec, who was a
city doctor at that time. The forest cemetery was conceived in
the style of a right-angle grid as a centraI cemetery for the
surrounding area of Greater Zlín. It is dominated by a stone
cross with Gahura's statue of crucified Christ at the point
where the cemetery axis cross. It was consecrated on AII Saints
day in 1932. Mr. Tomáš Baťa Sr. and A. Brouček were one ofthe
first ones buried here. From 1978, a crematorium became a part
of the cemetery, whose author is architect Jiří Čančík. The area
of the cemetery covers approximately 21 hectares. astrale has
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