An example of an old timbered school building.

The first written record dates back to 1238. The town is situated at an altitude of 284 metres. We have a car camp, a museum, a theatre group, a kindergarten and a primary school and an athletic stadium. We organize sports and cultural events.

We offer a permanent exhibition of the railway museum in the original steam locomotive shed. Museum trains with historical vehicles are also available to the public. We provide the rotunda building of the roundhouse for rent for filming, corporate and social events.

We operate a town museum, which includes exhibitions of ethnography, the 1775 Peasant Uprising, mining in the Podkrkonoše region and Rtyň music. The expositions include an educational trail through mining monuments.