According to a legend, which also Adalbert Stifter describes in Hochwald, the kings of Bavaria, Bohemia and Austria gathered on the top of the Dreisesselberg, to negotiate the limits of their dominions. In reality, the name Dreisesselberg (three chairs) was not used until the 17th century, first for the remarkable group of rocks at the summit, but soon the whole mountain. The actual frontier was only fixed in 1765 between the Bishopric of Passau and Archduchy of Austria and surveyed in 1767. As well as mentioning the Dreisesselberg in his story, Hochwald, Adalbert Stifter also mentioned it in his last novel, Witiko, and in his final story, Aus dem baierischen Walde (both 1867), a literary monument. His reports of the Dreisesselberg was already a popular destination for hikers. In 1888 the Dreisesselberg branch of the Bavarian Forest Club had built the first refuge hut on the mountain. Next to this hut built in 1913, the current building was erected, which was modernized in the 1960s.