The forest crystal water spring was well known to our ancestors in the past and after the defeat of Bílá Hora it used to serve as a secret meeting point of the non-Catholics. In the middle of the 19th century the water source was used for the construction of the first town water pipelines. In 1887, a resident of Hořice and a patriot Jindřich Kubát, a well known cycling pioneer, let the surroundings of the spring treat on his own costs. The current design of Kalíšek comes from 1939 (designed by Vít Vrátný, an expert teacher of the sculptor’s school in Hořice). Three wood springs were led in a reservoir enclosed with a wall made of sandstone, where the water runs from three pipes to a little lake, which is decorated by sandstone figures of a dragon and a water goblin. A forest walk leading past Kalíšek was named after a famous composer Jan Malát in 1913, who used to spend his summer holidays in a nearby village Dachovy.