 The covered wooden footbridge was built in 1870 and was used for the retention, counting, rectification and discharge of timber floating down the Vltava river from the Bohemian Forest, namely from the Boubin area, to the paper mills in Loučovice and Větřní.The Czech name "Rechle" comes from the German word "der Rechen" which means "rake".And that describes what the function of the bridge used to be.There were openings in the floor of the bridge where beams were inserted into the river, and they were used similar to rakes for retaining the wood during low water.