Less perceptible ruins of the highest located medieval castle in Moravia from nineties of the 13th century and an administration centre of Rabštejn (later of Janovice) domain, the north-western part of the Rýmařov region, these ruins prop on three rocky knots on the top of the hill, which is covered with mixed forest and there is a nice view on surrounding valleys and the plains in the Northern Moravia. The founder of the castle was probably a big colonist Hrabiš from Švábenice. The castle got into the hands of Jindřich from Lipá shortly after its foundation or to his allies, who fought against the king Jan Lucemburský. The castle was conquered by the Olomouc bishop Konrád in 1317 and he gave it to the king. Proček from Vildberk held the castle in pledge in 1405 that used the wars between Moravian margraves at the turn of the 14th and 15th century to richen himself. Rabštejn was conquered together with the Rýmařov town castle by the municipal units and Proček was captured. Zikmund Lucemburský pledged the castle and the domain to catholic allies during Hussite wars, but they were probably maintaining armed truce with the Hussite Sovinec. During the reign of Jiří from Poděbrady his loyal friends Calixtines Tunklové from Brníčko took on the administration of the castle and after the occupation of Moravia by the Hungarian king Mathias Corvin he led together with the Sovinec people a small war against his troops and traitors from the side of Moravian nobility. He did not stop with his resistance even after the death of rightful Czech king. Part of the domain was devastated during the crusade of Hungary on Nisko and Rabštejn was for a short period of time occupied. After the foundation of the Janovice fortress, new administrative centre of the domain, and later after the foundation of the castle, Rabštejn started to waste away and it was the thirty years war, which led to its reconstruction and enlargement to recoverable areas after its conquest by Swedish army. The situation repeated after their departure in 1650, but the walls were repaired for the last time when the land was endangered by Turkish army, but after their defeat by Vienna, firmness lost its meaning and the castle gradually got desolated into today's appearance. Rabštejn cliffs serve lately as a training terrain for beginner rock climbers. Except for Rabštejn, it is possible to find the ruins of the Strálek caste approximately 2 km away from Rýmařov and ruins of Pustý zámek about the Rešovské waterfalls.

The remnants of the castle was strategically situated above the road from Rýmařov to Uničov, it can be found about 3 km southwest of Rýmařov. Its name was recorded for the first time in 1282 on the copy of the seal of its probable founder Beneš from Štítina – „de Strálek“. Around the year 1323, the title „from Strálek“ was also used by his descendants Zbyněk and Dobeš. At that time the importance of the castle started to decline gradually.

Later the castle was bought by lords from Valečov but they sold it immediately around 1352 to the Czech king Charles IV and in the 1st half of the 14th century in turned into an uninhabited ruin. An easy track marked with red signs goes to the castle ruins oriented to the south from Rýmařov along which you will get to the crossroad „Pod Strálkem“ and here you take the red signed turning od 300 m towards the castle ruins.

Extraordinary beautiful castle was founded on the rocky cliff in the years 1329-1332 by the Nobles from Huzová, bishop men and from these dates also sovereign Nobles of Sovinec. They were fighting on both sides during Hussite wars, but the owners of the castle, Hussite marshal stayed devoted to the Calix side. They are a permanent threat to the powerful catholic Olomouc and we could find them in many important battles. It seems that Prokop Holý (Prokop the Bold) was negotiating on Sovinec in 1428 with the pretender of the Czech throne, Polish prince Zikmund Korybutovič. The Nobles of Sovinec maintained loyalty to Jiří from Poděbrady and his successor Vladislav Jagellonský and their rival and usurper Mathias Corvin devastated the domain in August 1474. The last heirs died out in 1543. Kryštof from Boskovice took the domain and he enlarged the castle into a comfortable renaissance residence. His successor Vavřinec Eder from Štiavnice continued in his work, but he modernized also the fortification. Jan Kobylka from Kobylí, the seal protector of Mathias Habsburg, participant in the Czech order's uprising and the last Czech owner sold the domain in 1623 to the order of German Knights, which strengthened the endangered stability by modern bastions and underhung fortress called Lichtenštejnska. Despite these changes the castle was in 1626 conquered by Danes and in 1643 the castle could not resist for a long time to Swedish siege and the garrison gave up. After years of dilapidation the castle was in 19th century significantly renovated by the knights into a clerical seminar and later into a renowned forestry school. The Knight order was destroyed in 1938 by Nazis and a lot of friars had to go to the concentration camps. The Sovinec castle was destroyed by a fire in May 1945 under even now unclear circumstances. This fire was made by leaving Wehrmacht units or rather by Soviet army. More important renovation was started in nineties. It would take a long time before the castle would get back its original face. Gates of this magic dominant of forested valley are open to the visitors from April to September every year.

The wooden administration centre of Přemyslovci, which was fortified by rampart and a massive trench was founded on the loess hillock near the right bank of the Podolský brook in the precolonisation settlement period (1st half of the 13th century). A smallish town Rýmařov was founded under the protection of the fortress in 1269-78 in the German colonization times after the war extinction of older settlement. Rýmařov was formed by the marketplace and one circular street. They rebuilt the settlement in the same period into a partially stone town castle. Its important development was caused by a significant enlargement of the palace and other internal building during the first half of the 14th century. It has become the most important strategic place in the defence of the town after building of the town walls. By the end of 13th century was on the castle in the south of the palace gained gold from surrounding mines by a very modern smelting on special slats The peak of the hillock Hrádek was in the second half of the 14th century significantly raised by the mound and because of the pressure of events there was again built a wooden fortress on the same place, which was fenced by a polish fence and a palisade. From 1398 the Moravian margraves pledged the Rabštejn domain to its creditors starting from the period of civil wars. The first pledger Proček from Vildberk misused the situation, which caused the intervention of the provincial troops after the peace was made. Hrádek was together with Rabštejn and the whole Rýmařov conquered and burnt down in August 1405. It was never renovated again. After the fall of the castle settled in its former area firstly the market and later the producer of a really original renaissance ceramics. A systematic research was conducted here in 1969-88 and it is therefore nowadays protected archaeological locality. Its area is used by the Town Museum as a part of the geological exposition of the Jeseníky minerals and there is the replica of the castle palace bases with warming furnace from the end of the 13th century, which could be found above former bases.

Mary Virgin Immaculate Conception Church is a late-baroque building dated back to 1754-55. It was built at the site of an earlier Gothic church probably from 14th century which was demolished. The arched one-nave building with a semi-circle chancel and a prism tower with three bells was covered with a mansard roof. The picture of Mary Virgin Immaculate Conception for the main altar was painted in a workroom of Josef Dickel in 1792. The fresco paintings on two vaulted strips separating the vaults of the church are remarkable. The dominants of the church furniture are richly carved altars decorated with white paint.

The church of St. Anthony of Padua is in the square in Tvrdkov and was completed in 1776. During the First World War the original bells, including the commemorative bell made in 1601 were removed from the church together with tin and copper candlesticks and timpani metal pipe organ it is the only case in this region in which musical instruments were seized for military purposes as well as bells. The replacement bells were consecrated in 1924 but were again removed during the Second World War.

The church of the Holy Cross was built in 1777 on the site of the old tiny flax, which Count Harrach gave the village. The unique style of construction is characterized by a low roof and high slender tower above the main entrance. The spacious interior delivers a semi-circular chancel with windows and a white altar dominated by a simple cross and several statues. The pulpit with rococo decoration is probably original. There is a large picture with the theme of St. Cross in the choir and organ. There is interesting decoration on the front two short pews in the nave and the Harrachovsky bench with a coat of arms, which has been reserved specifically for the family.

The church was built in 1812 and dedicated to St. Wenceslas. The altarpiece, which was already in the original temple, painted in 1749 by Jan Christoph Handke from Janovic at Rýmařov. During the overhaul of the church interior the 80 year old benches were replaced with furniture culled from the cancelled Janovický chapel. In the church is the tombstone of Sidonie Heidenreichová from 1572, the alleged founder of the church prior to the onset of the Lutheran. Rýmařov served as one of the few Catholics churches. The statue of St. Wenceslas enclosed in the cemetery wall was declared a cultural monument.

Rýžoviště church was built in 1603 on the foundations of an earlier church, from which only the tower remains. It served Protestant believers. When the people embraced the Catholic faith, the temple was dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The current look has been maintained from 1755-1958. The church tower is 49m, the front of the church is broad, tapering in height to form a trapezoid. The temple dome is decorated with frescoes by Josef Hübsche from Prague in 1902. The Baroque altar and six side altars were made by Tyrolean sculptor Joseph Obletter. The marble font with a polychrome statue of St. John the Baptist is from 1897.

Reconstructed in the Renaissance style. It was originally a Gothic bell tower equipped with a wooden gallery, and dome with four towers at the corners. In 1625 the church was taken over by the Catholic Church. In 1688 on the left side of the aisle the free Garlands baroque chapel was built. An oil painting with the figures of the Altar of the Virgin Mary, St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena is the work of important native Janovic John Christopher Handke, from about 1725.

The chapel, which is called the pearl of the Northern-Moravian baroque, was founded on a place, where an older church in 1710-1715 in the neighbourhood of the old hermitage. Friedrich Hösler was a very talented constructor from Rýmařov, who was the author of this unusual oval building. Alliance symbol of the Earl Aloise Harrach and his second wife Marie Arnoštka from Gallas was placed above the main entrance in 1721, which provided big financial means for the construction of this sanctuary. High above it is placed the sculptural group of Virgin Mary and her mother Saint Anna. Magnificent interior attracts by arch ceiling on four massive pillars with artificial marble. The area attracts mainly by frescos, whose author was the Olomouc painter Ferdinand Naboth (approximately 1664-1714) with his talented journeyman Jan Kryštof Handek (1694-1774) from close Janovice. He finished the decoration of the chapel in 1715 after early death and he became his successor in Olomouc. Fresco decoration with text tapes, which represent illustration of the Latin version of known prayer to Hail Virgin Mary Queen and they are completed by the oval medallion of saints, which protect against plague and catastrophes. A large fresco is directly above the entrance, whose style is different from the other and it is the only independent ceiling work of Handke. Handke is also the author of an excellent monumental painting on the main altar, which is completed by sculptures of mundane saints. Totally unusual is also the oval tribune, which goes around the whole area of the chapel and is accessible by two narrow entrances. Oblong frescos, which go around it are the later work of an anonymous author and do not have the quality of older authors. The chapel is furnished with five side altars, which are partly baroque and a high quality pulpit. Organs were installed in 1718. Chapel was protected against the fate of many other churches in the Rýmařov region mainly by Rýmařov priest ThDr. František Vaňák, later Olomouc archbishop and Moravian metropolitan, but also the respect to the great work among the Rýmařov people. Well renovated chapel was never seriously damaged again and it is a unique proof of original baroque building including the equipment. Only the bell-tower's casque has changed during the roof fire in 1883. The chapel was in past always the target of pleading procession from the whole region during the times of wars, plagues and catastrophes. Common graves of plague victims from surrounding villages were found in the front field of the chapel. The nice late baroque sculpture Victorious Virgin Mary (1774) and folk sculptural group Crucifixion (1812), which is placed in front of the chapel is really worth seeing. The Rýmařov parish church of St. archangel Michaela and another in Velká Štáhle, Břidličná, Albrechtice, Rýžoviště in Stránské, Sovince and elsewhere are worth seeing.

By the year 1758 Ruda had only the bell tower from 1583 and the cemetery. The main impetus was to construct a church in 1755. A Royal referee went with a uničovský councillor through the forest to the mill. Suddenly the horse bolted and the carriage crumpled into the gorge. However, two passengers escaped without injury. To give thanks the two officers built the church in Ruda. Construction was completed in 1758 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary of the Snows. The event, which preceded the construction of the church, reminiscent of the image in the church hall. A remarkable piece of equipment is an ancient church organ from 1762.

The Baroque calvary pilgrimage to the church of Our Lady of the Snow Hill leads along a path lined with statues of sandstone from 1760. The statues represent the 14 Passion scenes of the Cross. The twelfth stop is called Little Calvary - The Crucified between Mary and John the Evangelist is the figure of St. Mary Magdalene. Unique is 14 the scene to stop the grave. Each stop gave a different family, which is printed on the back side. Calvary was in 1963 declared a national cultural monument. On the first Sunday in August it hosts a fair. From the top is a panoramic view of the Hana fertile plain, bounded by the steep edge of the Lower Jeseníky on the east and northeast. You can see the northern part of the Drahany Highlands and Lowlands in the west. Towards the north lie the Highlands of Hanušovice and the eagle silhouette of distant mountains to the north we see the massive Hrubý Jesenik.

The Chapel of St. Anne in Nová Ves was built between 1921 - 1922 probably in place of an original wooden chapel. It represents single-neo-Gothic architecture with a single wooden altar with the image of the Virgin Mary teaching, images of the Cross, with many benches and a procedural cross. Above the entrance is a gallery with a harmonium produced in New York. In the tower is the original church bell, cast in 1746 in Olomouc.

The walled chapel, built in 1759 by hereditary magistrate Augustine Meyer. The chapel was originally dedicated to 14 Ansars. The chapel has a single-tower structure, a single small vaulted presbytery and vestry, it stands on a hill above the village. The access road is paved with slate plates. The chapel is consecrated to St. John the Baptist. An image of the baptism of Jesus hangs above the entrance to the sacristy. The most interesting part of the original decoration is the way of the cross, consisting of folk paintings on glass. The Chapel is open only during midsummer pilgrimage.

The wooden Lutheran church was built in 1614. In 1655 it was consecrated as the church of the Holy Trinity. The new parish church was built between 1790-1793. The final form of the church has a Baroque, classical style facade. Sundial from the southern wall and the ancient tombstone with the inscription and the motif of the skull and crossed bones on the back wall of the church are from 1791. The main altar is decorated with an image of the Holy Trinity. The original organ by Josef Staudinger from Andělské Hory was replaced in 1915 by an organ from Rieger, Krnov. Along with the Baroque parish from 1770 it creates a picturesque whole.

The wooden Protestant church was built in the village apparently after the 16th century. After the plague, two hundred dead were burned in the church on the advice of the nobility. Therefore, a Renaissance church reconstruction was built over the ruins of a Gothic church from the time of the first settlement. Estate owner George Kobylky of Kobylího opened the the church in 1608 evidenced by a stone slab with a coat of arms. The fire in 1854 left the church very damaged, repairs lasted 10 years. Bells were commandeered in 1916, the village then purchased a new bell. The church organ was installed by Rieger-Kloss in 1915.

The Chapel of St. Francis Xavier is in the form of a cross-aisle building with a stepped rectangular chancel and apse. There is an adjacent tetrahedral sacristy, in the west facade rising from a ridge roof lantern with the ball, double-flight cross and the initials of a saint. The lower turret has an octagonal apse above the dome with a vane. The shield clocks are connected with opposite clock in the rear shield. The chapel has been desecrated and leased to a private person. The village had recently repaired the roof, glazed the windows and painted the walls white. The plan is to open an art gallery in the chapel.

In Jiříkov the church was originally dedicated to St. George and in 1624 belonged to the Lutherans. The temple was taken over by the Catholic Church and in 1655 gave it a new patron saint, Michael. That dedication is still the main altarpiece. Jiříkovský church was probably the first temple on the Sovinec estate. During the Baroque period it underwent extensive renovation to gain its appearance today. Untouched, leaving only the Renaissance Tower and armorial plate of Sovinec the former owner of the estate of John Kobylka of Kobylí and his wife Anna Ederovna dated 1605 on the right side of the entrance facade. The church has long been unused.

The stone Church of St. Mary Magdalene is in Horní Město, built between 1611-1612 by Ondrej Grünbüchlu of Hoffmann and Střekov. The main altarpiece has St. Mary Magdalene at the table of Simon the Pharisee and was painted in 1768 by Jan Christoph Handke. The temple is decorated with two choruses. The first is a period picture of an old mine. The presbytery of the church was the chapel of St. Ann in 1741. The church had a cemetery but in 1842 burials there were banned because it was over the main shaft of hornoměstského ore district. The parish building in Horní Město was built in 1697 and now has a new facade.

The nave church of St. Jacob's in Dolní Moravice is first mentioned in 1351. The original medieval church stood on the same site and was first rebuilt in 1593 by master Joachim. The second, classicist reconstruction followed in 1795, since June 1794 the temple was struck by lightning seven times which damaged it considerably. The internal furnishings of the church are particularly interesting with an illusory wall altar with the image of St. James Elder by Johann Franz Greipel from before 1798. The area adjacent to the cemetery is surrounded by a plastered brick boundary wall with a wrought-iron gate, a mortuary and a stone staircase.

The Church of St. George is a single building with a vestry to the west. It was built in the years 1771-1773 in place of a wooden church which was built in 1532. In 2nd half of the 19th century a gallery and hall were built and the cupola vaulted nave was replaced by a flat ceiling. In the church you can see the altarpiece of John Amler of Sternberg and the late Baroque organ from the early 19th century. The church has a cemetery, surrounded by stone boundary walls with a brick gateway.

The Church of the Holy Spirit was consecrated in 1911. It is built in simple Gothic style. After the war the church began to be used by the faithful of the Church of Czechoslovakia then it became a funeral hall. The Church was reconstructed between 2007 - 2008 and now hosts traditional Catholic worship.

The first time which binds the parish to the church of the Three Kings is 1576. The Church of originally served Lutheran believers. There is no single style, it mixes elements of the Renaissance, Baroque and neo-Gothic. The dominant feature of this temple is seen in a huge nave quadrilateral tower topped baroque dome to the south side and open to the outside and inside. Its interior has a simple and airy feel. St. Epiphany is located in the middle of a former cemetery, the stone boundary wall has been registered as a cultural monument.

Ancient dominant of former medieval marketplace and the whole town carries all styles, through which the town has undergone during its long existence thanks to frequent fires. Lower prismatic part of so called Town Tower, which has maintained its former defensive character of the last refuge and typical slotted loopholes are no older than from the turn of the 14th and 15th century. Bread benches were the oldest part, a small extension by the tower’s foot, which was unreasonably demolished shortly after 1945. The proof of the building’s renaissance existence is the illustration on maps of Pavel Fabricius from 1569 and 1575 and octagonal extension of the tower, which originally had simple pyramid casque. We know the early baroque reconstruction after the fire in 1668 from the town’s changes from 1693. The town hall's roof was made by two gables and the tower boasted by nice double bulbous baroque cupola, which was above the gallery. Firstly the tower clock with only one arm set the time in the town. The first floor could be reached only through outer wooden staircase. While the ground floor further served as market the area, where passing businessmen were disburdening their goods, there was a big hall for the meetings of the Town Council in the first floor, room for the Town Typist and a chamber for saving the archive and guns of the town funds. There were employed on the town hall only two employees together with the messenger, maximally there were two more catchpoles, councilman and mayor were executing their functions for free. It seems that there were taking place examinations of suspicious people in the cellar of the town hall and torture was used. 3. The town hall did not survive a terrifying fire on 3rd April 1790. The whole town and both its suburbs succumbed to it except for cellars and several stone ground floors. People were able to build again the whole Rýmařov together with its administration centre almost from the bases with the help of a series of Moravian towns and the Harrach family, but they constructed it into a charming Classicism and Empire style. The tower lost the gallery and it was covered by simplified classicist casque with a lantern and bells. Today's town hall has basically maintained its appearance, which it gained in 1808, when it was renovated including interesting contemporary interior, still attentive observer can easily find several older elements. The stone town symbol from 1844 is placed above the entrance. The last and very sensitive renovation works in 1991-4 enlarged its area by well used loft. The Marian column from 1683 is worth seeing with Ditrichstein and Hoffman symbols, its smallish shank with a cavity and interesting grating, the symbol of the chapel is capped by highly valued sculpture of praying Taintless Virgin Mary from František Leblos, who is sculptor from Olomouc. Another Olomouc Master Severin Tischler placed lower in 1733 the sculpture of the most important baroque saint Jan Nepomucký. Stone pillory from 1680 is not placed in the entrance part to the town museum in the lower part of the square.

The Schindler's barn was built in 1937 by a local carpenter for the family of Rudolph Schindler. It features an original pioneering self-supporting roof structure. Schindler's barn houses a permanent museum exhibition focused on the development of agricultural technology, education, and ancient archaeological finds in the region of Malá Morávka. The barn is at the part of the village conservation area of Malá Morávka, which includes several dozen houses of the Sudeten Jeseníky type and other buildings built in the 18th and 19th centuries, documenting the nature of the local population.

The Gallery extends on area of four hectares. Here you can see a large number of carvings of animals or a life-size nativity scene which contains 154 statues and weighs 20 ton. There is even a life-size elephant or camel. The dominant of the whole gallery is then a statue of the lord of the Jeseníky mountains – Praděd grandfather which is about 10,4 m high and weighs approx. 15 tons. It is this statue that the whole gallery is named after.

The private Museum „Kapličkový vrch“ was founded in September 1994 by Ing. Ivan Hornišer and Igor Hornišer. The Museum is situated in the Baroque Trinity Chapel above the former medieval stronghold.

The main part of the permanent exhibition comprises of archaeological findings from the localities on Kapličkový vrch or findings from an audit on Solný vrch and from the locality on the right bank of the Bělokamenný potok stream. Together with other younger exhibits, this exhibition maps the long-term settlement in the valley of the Bělokamenný potok stream and the connected iron ore mining.

The Museum was established in 1901 by Wilhelm Ludwig, a local entrepreneur and town representative. In the years 1992 - 2001 the individual exhibitions were prepared gradually. At the moment it is funded from gifts, museum collections and purchases. The exhibits which were the original part of our collections are nowadays rather rare – it is rather the returned or at least lent exhibits that are available there. In four exhibitions, the Museum offers an outline of the historic development of Rýmařov region, history of the local mining and textile industries (it is necessary to mention a unique collection of silk brocades) and geology of the southern Jeseníky region. It also includes an external and freely accessible geological exhibition in the lokality of Hrádek. Part of the museum is also Octopus Gallery.