According to the exiled former owners (Liepiai family), the history of the homestead dates back to the 16th - 17th centuries. This is evidenced by the wide-stemmed oak of the homestead. The homesteads were large because it was not the poor Karkelbeck (this is the old name of Karkle) rural fishermen who lived here, but farmers. This was thought to be the case until an extraordinary finding in 2012. In the summer, when the fisherman's cottage was reconstructed, there was found a token from the end of the 19th century with the German inscription „KÖNIGLICHE BERNSTEINWERKE. KARKELBECK No 409“. Thus came the name of the homestead. Such tokens were issued by the “Stantien & Becker” amber mine, which industrially mined amber in several places on the Curonian Spit coast, but mainly in Juodkrante. At that time, the amber collection was taxed by the Prussian emperor. It is believed that the owners of the homestead either worked in this company or collected amber themselves and had a small amber workshop on their farm, where they processed amber caught at sea.

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Amber and farming have improved the well-being of the family and at the turn of the century one of the three Karkelbeck's schools appears in the homestead, it is a classroom in the main room of the house and behind the wall – teacher's room. Today, this is proved only by the remaining centuries-old wallers and beams of the residential house on the website of the “Senoji Karkelbekės mokykla" (Karkelbeck’s Old School). In a house, renovated in 2008, on the second floor you will find and a history-filled apartment with two bedrooms, a living room, and a bathroom.

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For the guests' comfortable rest, we first rebuilt the former fishermen's hut (the name came from the fishermen who sorted the fish they caught in it). In the new house, we tried to keep the old spirit, so we chose natural Lithuanian logs, windows, and a wood-burning stove, representing characteristics of this region. The token found during the reconstruction mentioned above testifies about the collection and processing of amber in this homestead. In the house, which we now call the "Karališkasis gintaro cechas" (Royal Amber House), we offer comfortable rest and amber therapy.