The history of glassmaking in the Jizera Mountains is well known. The first glass workshops were established in the foothills and with the decline of timber moved progressively deeper into the mountains. Johann Schurer founded a glass workshop in Huť (lit. glassworks), a village below Černá Studnice, in 1558. He chose this place because of the rich silica deposits in the rocks surrounding Žernovník, an important ingredient in the glassmaking process. In 1561 Jindřich Smiřicky granted Schurer permission to establish a glassworks comprising four parts of a farmstead with mill and land in Syřišťov and Stanovsko.

The second oldest site is marked today with a monument in the forest on the green route from Zahájí to Beran, unveiled on August 5th, 1923. Today an unworked conical granite boulder rests on a plinth of rough hewn blocks. The front side has been flattened and a shallow recess measuring 32.5x24cm once housed a tablet inscribed thus: “Pilgrim Halt! In this place stood a glass works, 1552 – 1717. Take heed and defend!”.