The first important building that was built at Milešovka was a small pub, which was built in 1820 under very difficult conditions by the innkeeper Anton Weber from Velemín. In the following years, he gradually expanded the pub into 2 dining rooms, several cottages, a dance area, a small shop and a chapel. In the 1840s he built a 4 m high stone lookout tower on Milešovka.

The observatory was built on the initiative of Reginald Czermack-Warteck, the then commercial councillor, who was a deserved member of the presidium of the Mountain Association in Teplice and the chairman of the mountain associations of Northwest Bohemia. Several committees were set up to carry out the construction of the observatory, the scientific committee being headed by the university professor Dr. R. Spitaler. From five projects submitted by different architects, the design of E. Hoke.

Construction of the observatory began on 4 March 1903. The basic building material was phonolite, which was quarried directly on the top of Milešovka. The construction was completed in June 1904. The observatory building includes an 18 m high tower with a 10 m high viewing gallery.

Since 1905, meteorological observations and measurements have been carried out here continuously (with a small break in 1917 and during World War II).

In 1953, the observatory came under the administration of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (CSAV), first under the Geophysical Institute, then under the Meteorology Laboratory of the Institute of Meteorology and finally in 1964 under the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, to which it belongs to the present day.

Nowadays, the observatory is included in the international network of synoptic stations and standard meteorological observations are carried out every hour. In addition, the observatory is equipped with a number of special meteorological instruments.

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