[3] Between 1713 and 1764, English merchants settled here and foreign capital has contributed to long-term development of the town.

[4] During the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, American, British, and Italian diplomats agreed that the Rumburk corner should be given to Germany for to economic and ethnographic reasons.

Eventually, the Conference followed the Czechs' demand based on alleged indivisibility of Bohemia.

After World War II, the German-speaking population was expelled and replaced by Czech settlers.

Following a number of years of depression after the fall of communism, the region is now poised to become an industrial centre again.

Loreta in Rumburk was an important Marian pilgrimage site for the region of northern Bohemia and Upper Lusatia.

[13] The original wooden Church of Saint Bartholomew was built in the late 12th or early 13th century, the oldest written mention dates from 1352.