Dukla lay on an important trade route called “The Hungarian Route” leading through the Dukla Pass to Hungary. From the end of the 16th century and throughout the 17th century, the town played an important role in Polish-Hungarian wine trade. In 1588 King Zygmunt III Waza granted the town the right to store wine and since 1595 all goods transported across the border had to be cleared through customs in Dukla. The first customs house was located in the town hall. It had a high turnover of exported, imported and transit goods. The new customs house was probably built in the seventeenth17th century and was located to the southeast of the market. The cadastral map from 1851 shows a square projection of the present ruins of the building, situated in a fairly compact and chaotic building on a narrow and long plot, away from Hungarian Street.
The map analysis shows that the customs building was located within the city fortifications. Probably during a fire in the city in 1889, the building was damaged. The west side of the elevation shows marks of fire. After the reconstruction, the customs house was used as wa warehouse. The cadastral map from the beginning of the 20th century shows an almost analogous arrangement as on the map from the mid-19th century. The mortgage registers of the town of Dukla were lost, so no further owners of the objectbuilding can be determined. Basing on the remaining geodetic documentation of mortgage records made in Dukla on 12th May, 1939, we know that the customs house was founded on the plot of Schaji Steinreich, son of Marrkus.