In 1579, Abertamy was promoted to royal mining town by Emperor Rudolf II.

Abertamy lost its town rights, and the area was forcibly recatholicized after the war.

The town was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and in 1938–1945 it was administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.

[4] However roughly 150,000 of three million Sudeten Germans in the surrounding region were not expelled due to their indispensable mining and technical skills.

[5] Intensive mining of uranium ore had started in the area after World War II.

[8] Abertamy lies in the mining cultural landscape Abertamy – Boží Dar – Horní Blatná, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019 as a part of the transnational Ore Mountain Mining Region.

[10] The Church of Fourteen Holy Helpers was built in the late Gothic style in 1534.