Zlatá Studna is one of the extinct settlements belonging in the past to Horská Kvilda. A glass-works operated in the place from 1799 to1880, founded by the municipality of Kašperské Hory and famous for its production of hollow glassware and "páteřík" glass beads. The settlement ceased to exist at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in connection with the end of operation at the glass-works. By the glass factory there used to be a pub, still standing there in the inter-war period, and a house of the glass worker named Hartauer, whose son Andreas Hartauer, a glass-worker too (employed in Lenora and in St. Pölten), is better known as a musician and the composer of the song *.
In 1843 there were 138 people living in Zlatá Studně and the village had its own school. Today we can see foundations of several buildings and one recreational house.