Hlavní vstup do Lesního hřbitova - Filmová 412

Mayor Tomáš Baťa submitted to the city council on June 20, 1930 a proposal for the establishment of a Forest Cemetery on an area of ​​20 ha. An area of ​​the district office in UH ​​in 1931 allowed the establishment of the Forest Cemetery. It included the approval of the cemetery regulations and fees. It was designed by Mr. Gahura, inspired by T. Baťa from America and the Bor Forest Cemetery near Č. Lípa around 1909. The main idea was to set up a cemetery away from the bustle of industry and a fast-growing city. This solved the burial for 100 years - it was planned with 30,000 grave sites with a decay period of 15 years. The first buried was the son of Mudr. Gerbece, another was the founder of the factory and the town Tomáš Baťa (July 14, 1932). The cemetery was consecrated in 1932 by ThDr. Hejšl and in 1934 a new road to the Forest Cemetery was built. The current forest is a mixed stand aged 80 to 100 years, which is managed as a forest of special purpose, the areas outside the cemetery are commercial forest. At present, there are 11,583 grave sites registered in the Forest Cemetery, of which 4,600 are traditional to the country, 2,519 urn sites and 4,464 landfill sites. Respect for the dead is an integral part of the moral code of every cultured person, and is therefore part of the social policy of the developed state. The city of Zlín provides, through the company Pohřebnictví Zlín, spol. s r. o., dignified places of last rest for all who lived and worked here. They rightfully deserve due posthumous respect. The company Pohřebnictví Zlín, spol. s r. o. manages cemeteries, provides cremation services and also runs a funeral service. In historical times, the influence of the church has established, for several centuries, the exclusive way of storing the bodies of the deceased in coffins and in them in the ground or tomb. The 20th century made a breakthrough in this custom by incineration and subsequent storage of ashes in urns, which are placed in the ground, in a niche of culinary wares or left on the surface of the tomb in a modified display case. The idea of ​​cremating the deceased is based on a cleansing fire and the need not to significantly expand the areas of cemeteries at the expense of agricultural land and necessary buildings. Today, cremation far exceeds the traditional burial of the bodies of the deceased - according to 1997 statistics, it is over 75% of the deceased. Developments in cemetery culture have greatly influenced all types of cremation of cremated remains. Such a new way is to pour ash on the pouring meadow. The idea of ​​merging with nature in our landfill meadow is complemented by the beauty of the surrounding natural environment - with artistic elements and park-maintained surroundings. In the Forest Cemetery in Zlín, 4,464 deceased are buried in a meadow. Around 250 infills are made annually. Landfilling is carried out during the growing season, ie from the end of May to the end of October. The rationale for this way of burying the remains is the idea of ​​a natural connection of the remains with the earth and thus an imaginary return to the nature from which man arose.