The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

The first settlement was established in the site of Rýmařov in the early 13th century by Czech colonists, but around 1250 it was destroyed.

In the 16th century, Rýmařov prospered and developed, the hammer mills brought wealth to the town.

In 1583 the estate was bought by the Tyrolean aristocratic Hoffmann of Grünbüchl family, who took care of the town and developed education and forestry.

In the second half of the 17th century, the town was threatened by the Northern Moravia witch trials, but in the end they did not bring any loss of life.

In the first half of the 19th century, modern flax and cotton processing factories were established in and around the town.

After the World War I, the Czechoslovak government suppressed efforts to annex the area to Germany, and Czech workers began to come to the town where the German population dominated.

After the war, in execution of the Beneš decrees, the almost entire German population was expelled and Rýmařov was repopulated by Czech settlers.

[3] The I/11 road (the section from Šumperk to Bruntál, further continuing to Opava and Ostrava) passes through the town.

It was erected at the expense of Maria Elisabeth Richtenstein in memory of the plague epidemic that struck Rýmařov in 1680.

[8] The Town Museum is an institution with collections tracing the history of the region from the earliest prehistoric settlements to the first half of the 20th century.

The place offers exhibitions on the development of mining, textile industry, and regional geology.

[12] There is an outdoor exposition of the Town Museum in the place of the protected archeological locality Hrádek, where a fortress was located in the 14th century.