Museums and Historic Sites

• Municipal Museum – Československé armády 472
• House of Prokop Diviš – Helvíkovice 326
• Litice - ancient castle
• Kunvald
  Kunvald
  Kunvald is a village in 5 km north of Žamberk in the Ústí nad Orlicí District, in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has over 1,000 inhabitants. The Unitas Fratrum was founded in Kunvald in 1457, when followers of the martyred Jan Hus found refuge on the estate of King George of...
  
   - place where Bohemian Brethren church was founded in 1457

Notable people associated with Žamberk

• Prokop Diviš (1698–1765) - Inventor, catholic priest
• Theodor Brorsen
  Theodor Brorsen
  Theodor Johan Christian Ambders Brorsen was a Danish astronomer best known for his discovery of five comets, including the lost periodic comet 5D/Brorsen and the periodic comet 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf.- Life :...
  
   (1819–1895) – Danish astronom and botanist
• Eduard Albert
  Eduard Albert
  MUDr. Eduard Albert , was a Czech surgeon, professor and historian.- Life :Eduard Albert was born in Žamberk, Bohemia in the family of clockmaker František Albert and Kateřina Albertová...
  
   (1841–1900) - Austrian surgeon, born and died in Žamberk, associated with Albert's disease.
• Pater Karel Chotovský (1842–1897) - catholic priest
• August Seydler
  August Seydler
  August Jan Bedřich Seydler , aka August Johann Friedrich Seydler, was a distinguished Czech astronomer, theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague. He was the founder of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech University . He was born in Žamberk to a commissioner of...
  
   (1849–1891) - astronomer
  Astronomer
  An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
  
  , theoretical physicist, and professor at Charles University in Prague
  Prague
  Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
  
  
• Edmund Kirsch
  Edmund Kirsch
  Edmund Kirsch , was Czech businessman, and translator.-Life:Edmund Kirsch was born in Brno on November 16, 1866. His father was managing director in one textile factory in Moscow. After graduating from textile school in Brno he was invited by his uncle Edmund Pintner to get practice in textile...
  
   (1866–1954) - businessman
• Oldřich Marek
  Oldrich Marek
  Oldřich Marek was a Czech entomologist and teacher, member of Czechoslovak entomological society in Prague since 1940.-Life:Oldřich Marek was born on April 3, 1911 in Ústí nad Orlicí. He attended Primary school in Dolní Čermná and secondary school in Česká Třebová...
  
   (1911–1986) - Entomologist and teacher
• Petr Eben
  Petr Eben
  Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music.-His life:Born in Žamberk in northeastern Bohemia, Eben spent his youth in Český Krumlov in southern Bohemia. There he studied piano, and later cello and organ...
  
   (1929–2007) - composers

Sister cities

External links

• Municipal website (in Czech)
• Pomníky obětem válek