It used to be a small village until the second half of 20th century, when a large housing estate was built west of Stochov to accommodate the increasing number of people working in coal mines in the Kladno area in the 1950s and 1960s.
Before the second half of the 20th century, it was a small village. Later, a large housing complex was established west of Stochov to address the rising number of people employed in coal mines within the Kladno region during the 1950s and 1960s.