<translation>Municipal Savings Bank</translation>

In the autumn of 1936, the savings bank announced a limited competition for its new building on Dolní náměstí. Five architects participated. The construction site is a row of buildings, relatively narrow (29 m), increasingly narrowing towards the courtyard, with groundwater 1.6 m below the surface near the Bečva River, which overflows its banks during spring and summer floods. This provided guidelines for the arrangement of the operational spaces of the savings bank in the mezzanine. Unlike other designers who treated the savings hall as a ground-floor courtyard block with overhead lighting, featuring a relatively costly structure and inadequate lighting for adjacent rooms, the realized project is largely designed as a two-wing structure and to a lesser extent as a three-winged one. This achieved a clear layout and flawless operation of the savings rooms and apartments. Thanks to the rare understanding of the representatives of the savings bank, especially its director, the author was allowed to create the building according to his own vision without any influence on his work, which is a rare occurrence.
The layout of the savings rooms differs in several details from the usual solutions of such institutions: a single staircase for the public was used, which continues from the mezzanine (half-width) as a residential staircase, both for cost-saving reasons and because, in the author's opinion, the more frequented the staircase leading to the savings rooms (during off-office hours), the better it keeps the main entrance to the savings bank monitored. The common staircase also achieves the desired discretion for clients in a small town, which in this case is further emphasized by the recessed entrance in the passage, where display cases and shops are located.
All the savings bank's rooms, including the meeting room and vault (which is in close proximity to the cashier), are located on one floor.