Surrounded by deep forests and swamps, the neighbourhood of Kladska pond remained uninhabited for a long time. During 1875 – 1876 Duke Schönburg-Waldenburg had a hunting lodge erected and a sawmill built on the Kladska meadow. At the turn of  19^th – 20^th century, the owner had the remaining five Swiss-Tyrol log cabins built. The first local guide book was printed in 1896.

The local park layouts were designed in a romantic style, where the typical character is determined by solitary trees in the main meadow. The parks are exceptional for their high altitude (820 m above sea level) as well as for the usage of exotic wood species. Kladska was the first place in the former Czechoslovakia to use the cultivar of the grey noble fir tree species and unique for their size, the common golden spruce tree species.