Settlement in the Kwartyrach

In 1877, a trout hatchery was established in the Vistula River to supply the royal court in Budapest with fish. Weekly transports of fish were sent over the Kubalonka Pass to Jablunkov, from where they were transported by train to the Hungarian capital. Annually, the Vistula hatchery produced 60 000 Danube salmon, 30 000 brook trout, 1 000 brown trout, 300 rainbow trout and 500 grayling.

The hatchery building has been preserved to this day. The small wooden building, designed on a rectangular plan, was covered with a gable roof. The wooden structure was set on a high stone plinth that reached to the lower edges of the window frames and projected in front of the façade. The walls had rectangular window openings with hexagonal fenestration (two each on the south-west and north-east sides and one on the north-west side). On the south-east side the door The elevations of the building are clad with timber trusses and the gable walls are clad with boards with the ends, at the level of the eaves of the roof slopes, decoratively developed into a spire. The roof was originally covered with shingles. A gravel filter has been installed in the building. The interior of the hatchery was remodeled in 1933 and 1954.