The highest point is the hill Kuřimská hora with an elevation of 435 metres (1,427 ft).

The first written mention of Kuřim is from 1226, when King Ottokar I issued a charter about the payment of tithes to the Church of Saints Peter and Paul.

During the Thirty Years' War, Kuřim was badly damaged several times by the Swedish army.

After it was burned down in the Thirty Years' War, it was reconstructed in its today's late Baroque form in 1766–1772.

Today the Kuřim Castle houses a school and its courtyard is used for cultural purposes.

[8] On the Kuřimská hora Hill is a water chapel of John of Nepomuk, probably built in 1722.