The vast majority of the inhabitants were Roman Catholics, complemented by 20 Jews, six Protestants and three people without religion.

After World War II, the town was returned to Czechoslovakia and the local German population was expelled.

[8] In 2022, 2023 and 2024, an annual meeting of micronations, known as the Micro Euro Summit, took place in Chyše Castle.

A very rare ceiling painting by Petr Brandl on the vault of one of the castle's representative salons dates from 1699.

[3][4] The Church of the Name of the Virgin Mary and the Carmelite monastery were originally late Gothic buildings from the 15th century.