CHALET POPRADSKÉ PLESO - A BRIEF HISTORY

The chalet is situated on the place where the first shelters and chalets were built thanks to the initiative of the Hugarian - Carpathian union. The first one Majláth´s chalet was named after the vice-president of the union and the member of Liptov county council Vojtech Majláth.
It burnt down in 1880 and it was replaced afterwards by a new stone chalet consisting of three rooms in the years 1881-1890. After the fire destroyed this one in 1892 Frantisek Mariássy built up a new chalet, but the new owner of the valley prince Hohenlohe let the chalet demolished in 1897 to restrict the tourist rush. In 1899 under the public pressure he built a new chalet with a big capacity there, which was opened to public till 1961 after many reconstructions.

In 1951 the chalet was renamed on the Captain´s Moravka chalet, in honour to Stefan Moravka, the commander of the financial guard at Štrbské Pleso, who died in revolt as a member of the partisan troop Vysoké Tatry Grúnik.

During the years 1958 1961 a new mountain hotel with a restaurant and a bar was built in the same locality, but it did not satisfy climbers and tourists at all and that´s why it was rebuilt again on the chalet, as we know it today.