The very first company residential buildings that were built on the meadow next to the zruč estate were wooden dormitories for workers. As early as 15 March 1939, an application was submitted for permission to build two quarters and a dining room with a kitchen. The municipality, however, delayed in issuing the permit, so the application was urged on 28 April 1939. The request was finally granted and by July 1939 two dormitories had been built in the upper part of the estate and one dormitory and dining room in the lower part, in the present park between the hotel and the director's villa.
The capacities of both establishments were insufficient, so in August 1939 a project for the extension of the dining room was created. In the first half of 1940, two more dormitories were built in the area below the hotel. All the temporary buildings were of wooden construction resting on stone pillars. The walls, floors and ceilings were made of wood, the roofs were covered with cardboard, and the dining hall and quarters were electrified.
The dormitories were designed for one hundred residents. Two entrance doors led directly to the common bedroom. With its size of 21.00 x 9.5 m, the floor area was approximately 2 m² per person. There was also a separate washroom and two manager's rooms with separate entrances. The bedroom was equipped with fifty bunk beds and two desks. The washroom had metal gutters and the leaders also had their own washbasin and cupboard.
The canteen building had two entrances, covered by an open veranda. The kitchen had a separate entrance and was separated from the dining room by a partition with a dispensing window. In addition to hot meals, employees could also enjoy freshly brewed beer or coffee from a modern coffee machine. The kitchens and canteen operated here until the beginning of 1941, when they were moved to the second factory building. With the gradual completion of the accommodation facilities, the wooden quarters were no longer needed and so they were demolished in the following years.
In addition to the mass dormitories, at the beginning of the summer of 1939, wooden single houses of the Weekend type were also built. There were probably ten of them and they were located in the area of today's children's playground, in the vicinity of a large estate where temporary shoe production took place. According to the original regulation plan, this area was eventually to be filled with semi-detached houses. The temporary single-family houses were modest, measuring 7.2 x 5.2 m with a built-up area of 37.5 m². As with the dormitories, they were wooden buildings placed on stone pillars. Each house was connected to the electricity grid and was equipped with one washbasin.
In April 1941 an interesting situation occurred. Apparently due to the planned but not realized completion of the housing estate, it was decided to move the wooden single houses. However, their dismantling and subsequent reassembly would have been very costly, so the Bata family came up with a very original solution, which was described in the contemporary press: " The entire wooden single-house was lifted onto two sets of carts with the help of hevers and moved by four pairs of sturdy horses to the new plot, where it was again erected on a pre-prepared foundation with the help of hevers. In this way, five single-family houses have already been moved without the slightest mishap."
Exactly how many houses were moved and to which location is not entirely clear. In 1945 there were still six wooden houses. According to contemporary photographs, at least three houses were moved between the serpentines of the county road leading towards Chabeřice, where, with various reconstructions, they probably still serve recreational purposes today. According to the relocated houses, the area became known as Na Vekendech, which was confirmed in 2008 by the town council, which named the new street located near the original Bata weekends.
