Fifteen years ago, a new modern building of the Czech Post Office was consecrated on Sněžka.

Prague – 15 years ago, on August 10, 2007, a new modern building of the Czech Post Office was consecrated on the highest Czech mountain, Sněžka, designed by architects Martin Rajniš and Patrik Hoffman. The structure, which rose in place of the demolished Czech lodge, offers tourists refreshments, post office services, information about the Krkonoš Mountains, and an access to a viewing terrace on the roof of the building. The post office is also the highest building in the territory of the Czech Republic. It began operation in 2008.

The historic post office at the summit of Sněžka stood since the mid-19th century and housed the imperial telegraph station. The timber building began serving as a post office 14 years later – the first letters and postcards were stamped with a round seal in September 1899. In 1938, after the German army occupied the Sudetenland, the post office was closed, and its operation did not continue even after the war.

Services on Sněžka were restored only in 1995 by the former postmaster from Velká Úpa, Jaroslava Skrbková. She renovated a small house, which had a kiosk with refreshments in the 1930s. Skrbková was both the investor and the owner of the new post office. It is built from wooden components reinforced with steel rods, complemented by glass panels covered with special wooden shutters.

Work on the new post office, which stands on the site of the dilapidated and demolished Czech lodge in 2004, began in 2006. The original post office was dismantled in 2009 and transported to Javorová skála near the Monínec complex in the Central Bohemian Region.