he town was first mentioned in the land and duty register of the Frýdlant domain from 1381 maintained in the state archive in Děčín.  
The town's original name was Lybenwerde. The village became known by the end of the 14th century, when reports began to spread about the healing effects of the local spring. The ones speaking about it were pilgrims who refreshed themselves here with “God’s water” along the way from Lužice to the Marian pilgrimage Church of the Visitation in neighboring Hejnice.At that time, Libverda could boast having famous guests.
Besides the Saxon elector August I, this also included the Bohemian humanist Bohuslav Hasištejnský of Lobkovice.
Since the end of the 16th century, the mineral water here has been helping patients from all corners of Europe.

We treat, we relax, and we spend our free time actively. We do all this with respect to the local spa tradition and history, in a picturesque hollow with spectacular views of the Jizera Mountain peaks.

Treat, regenerate, relax and do something beneficial for body and soul - that is the Roman spa philosophy proven over the ages. Those were the guiding principles of spa founder Filip Clam-Gallas and the Monastery provided the spiritual overlap. Today's spa managers also link back to these values and attempt to develop them so that care for the client would respect modern spa industry trends and spiritual regeneration, and would meet the demands for quality lodging, gastronomy and active ways to spend one’s free time.

The origin of the true spa is affiliated with the noble family Clam-Gallas. In 1636, they gained the Frýdlant domain from Emperor Ferdinand II as a reward for their loyalty to him in the march against Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Filip Josef Gallas died in 1757 leaving behind no direct descendants. His wife was named successor provided that after her death (1759), the property, coat-of-arms and name would pass on to Kristián Filip, the son of her sister Aloisia of Clam. A condition of this arrangement was that Kristián Filip and his descendants had to attach the name Gallas to their existing name. In 1768, Kristián Filip was confirmed by the empress in the ownership of the Gallas estates and coat-of-arms. And that is how the family branch Clam-Gallas originated.

It was Kristián Filip himself who is credited with the first spa construction. These emerged around 1760. Other spa buildings mentioned in historical records were built over around two decades later. In 1779, it was the storied dining hall - Trakteurhaus with 28 rooms and a large dining room, which transformed in the evenings into a dance hall. A mineral spring building was added in 1783 (“Sauer Brunn Gebäude”). Built in the years 1789 to 1795 were the buildings "Zum Schwarze Adler", "Turkenkopf" and "Schlosshotel". Separate spa buildings were built for gentlemen and ladies.

t the end of the 18th century, Kristián Filip had the spa park built in English style. Still standing at the edge of the park is the old bent lime tree with crucifix.
Around 1800, Kristián Filip built for himself a promenade and diminutive Empire chateau with the Clam-Gallas coat-of-arms, where he would live in the summer months. He also commissioned the building of the theater, chateau stables, coach house and pavilion above the Marian spring. In this building, the gilded head of a Turk was displayed. That's why it bore the German name Turkenkopf. Kristián Filip died in 1805. His son Kristián Kryštof continued to develop the spa. Thanks to the support of the Clam-Gallas family, an independent school was established in 1819.

In 1836, the provincial committee bestowed upon Libverda the Statute of a Healing Spa. In the same year, a two-wing colonnade was built with Dorian columns on prismatic plinths boasting adorning gloriettes. The year 1868 saw the opening of the New Spa House (formerly Helm). In 1911, this caught fire and was demolished. Construction followed of a more modern building named “Ostrava”, today’s Clam-Gallas Palace, in the age of the socialist spa industry. 

By the late-18th century and early-19th century, the spa was so popular that more and more well-known figures began visiting it. The Austrian Emperor himself, Josef II, visited it in 1779, followed by a visit by Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia in 1807. Other guests included composer Carl Maria von Weber, Czech scientist Josef Jungmann and more.

In 1898, a permanent post office was established in the municipality. In 1900, the railroad line was opened from Raspenava to Bílý potok, which improved the availability of the spa. The early 20th century saw the building of a tennis court, playground and a pond for swimming.
Libverda was known for expediting healing water called “libverdská kyselka“. In 1910, its sales reached 200,000 bottles. Bottling of the local mineral water ended in the 1930s, and it is instead drawn from a depth of around 100 m into tanks, and after heating it is used mainly for spa baths.

In 1906, the new name of the town was approved: Lázně Libverda [Spa Libverda].

Over the 20th century, Lázně Libverda was among the quintessential spas of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, thanks in part to the town's elevation to the status of a state spa in 1936.

The key accommodation facility Nový dům was built in 1986. In 2000, it underwent complete modernization. Next to be reconstructed was the guest house Frýdlant, the restaurant Valdštejn and guest house Labská, once a recreational building of ČS Plavba Labsko-Oderské.

In November 2006, the next part was completed of the EU project “Frýdlant Region - Tourist Destination“, which is the local panorama circuit called “Panoramas over Libverda”. It involves 5 attractive lookout points furnished with wooden stands with information boards. These share with visitors the stories of local legends.

Spa Resort Libverda is gradually restoring itself and modernizing its spa buildings, outdoor spaces and facilities.
Other important spa guests among the many were writer Franz Kafka, German natural scientist and co-founder of geography as an imperial science Alexander von Humbold, Czech historian and professor at Charles University Josef Vítězslav Šimák, the son of the father of the Czechoslovak nation and later foreign affairs minister Jan Masaryk, and not the least of which, world-renowned symphony conductor Václav Talich.

A local legend about a fat cockerel, or why Libverda has a cockerel in its coat of arms...

If you come to Libverda, the first thing you should do is look at the roof of the Eduard spring. There you will see a rather fetching cockerel that was, at the time I'm telling this, quite green, like the roof of the building on which he proudly stands, and of course, like the leaves of the trees in the summer, so he blended right in with all the green. Who ever saw a green cockerel? However, in the times of the Auspergs, the cockerel was faithfully dyed so that it was visible in the winter and properly in summer  - as it deserves to be. That cockerel on the roof of the Eduard spring, it's not just any normal decorative cockerel. It's a memorial to the cockerel that discovered the sources of the acidic Libverda water. And it was neither green nor colourful, but above all, terribly fat.

Listen to the legendary story of how one cockerel grew fat because it was the first to have the renowned acidic Libverda water for breakfast.

Once long, long ago, when the old border trail led through the wild, empty woods, tread only by the rangers, and there was nothing but rocks, forests, clouds, and forests with deep valleys rippling with abundant streams, bubbling like the Libverda one and wild like Štolpich, that is, in those ancient times, where Libverda is today there were only a swampy valley in which a broad fen, sometimes a swamp, stretched along the stream. Even back then, the place was the home of the "salikvarda", that is, a ranger who did not walk along the sentry border path like other rangers, but lived there permanently and provided walking border with an inn and accommodation after a tiring patrol. When the "salikvarda" settled down, he founded a small farm. No one knows any more what our ancient "salikvarda" was called. The main thing is that the first settler had a cottage, a few fields around, a meadow, a backyard, and in the yard pigs who flourished there - and lots of hens, ruled by a cockerel.

One beautiful day, the cockerel began to grow fat, as if someone had cast a spell on it. The salikvarda, his wife and children started to notice this, so they began to observe the enchanted cockerel. They watched him until they found out that the greedy rooster did not go to the stream to drink like the chickens, but to the wetland near the trail, a wetland that was highly inaccessible and overgrown with thickets of trees and bushes, where it was dangerous to go because the ground shifted and rocked under your feet. But the cockerel - as you know it can walk across mud because it's not heavy, however fat it gets. The salikvarda shook his head and wondered what sort of water it could be to make the cockerel so fat - and that wasn't all. The cockerel was growing old, but was still robust and full of life, but he wouldn't last for a hundred years, so one day he died. When the salikvarda cut him open - he stopped in amazement. His size wasn't due to fatness, but the huge size of his innards. He decided to try the water on himself. He cut his way through to the well, whose surface was exploding with large bubbles. He, too, got fat and was healthy. After a while the salikvarda could not keep the well secret, and so all the rangers went to drink from the well. They gave the place the name Libverda, and that's where the legend ends.

I cannot say if it is from the 15th or 16th century. But that's only of secondary importance. The main thing is the cockerel on the roof of the Eduard spring.