It is situated in the north of the Czech Republic, approximately 130 km from Prague, close to the borders with Germany and Poland.

The origin of the hut goes back to 1756 when Mr. Riedel built it as a residential timbered house, together with a glass works, which was operational until 1817.

In 1929, the hut became the property of the Czechoslovak state and it was used as a seat of the local forest office of Bedřichov.

In connection with the visit of Eduard Beneš, a Czechoslovak president between 1935 and 1938 and 1945 and 1948, a water turbine was installed in the Blatný pound (in Czech Blatný rybník), approximately 800 m away from the hut, and the hut was electrified.

Šámal was the head of the Office of the President of Czechoslovakia during the First Czechoslovak Republic; at the beginning of the World War II, he became a leading member of Anti-Nazi movement called Politické ústředí and he was tortured to death in the Nazi prison at Moabit, Berlin on 9 March 1941.