Nature has created a broad plain in the Naab Valley, the edges of which are formed by iron sandstone hills.

The main rivers of the district are the Naab and the Regen The climate in this area has mild differences between highs and lows, and there is adequate rainfall year-round.

Schwandorf was first mentioned in writing in 1006 AD in a document from the monastery of Saint Emmeram as Suainicondorf on the river Naba ( Naab ) in the area of the diocese of Regensburg .

Prehistoric finds, for example a fishing hook from the Bronze Age or urn graves from the Urnfield period (1200 to 800 BC) in the city area, as well as research into the origin of the city's name, make it certain that the town was settled very early on.

On 5 January 1299, the market town received a municipal constitution, and from 1446 onwards it was granted full city rights.

Louis Waldmann committed suicide in the Charlottenhof district in 1939, and nine other Schwandorf residents were deported and murdered.

At the end of the Second World War, on April 5, 1945, the train station was attacked for the second time by low-flying aircraft.

On April 17, 1945, between 3:52 a.m. and 4:07 a.m., Canadian and British Royal Air Force bombers with 167 Lancasters and eight Mosquitos bombed the train station in Schwandorf.

A total of 1,250 people, including refugees and displaced persons and 495 Schwandorf residents, died in this air raid.

Because the railway line was largely destroyed, a train transport with around 1,000 prisoners from the Flossenbürg concentration camp stopped near Schwandorf on April 19.

The town was then occupied by American troops of the 3rd Army as they advanced to a demarcation line in western and southern Bohemia agreed upon in the Potsdam Agreement.

Carp, bream, tench, zander, eels, catfish, barbel, nase, perch and pike can still be caught today.

In the urban area, the following streams feed the Naab: Fensterbach, Els, Rotha, Haselbach with Irlbach, Göggelbach, Blauer Entengraben and Martelgraben.

There are several multinational corporations located in Schwandorf, such as BMW, Horsch, Krones AG and Gerresheimer At the district level, the district of Schwandorf in Upper Palatinate is the undisputed number 1 in terms of tax revenue.

The former subsidiary of the Austrian Post was one of the largest direct marketing companies in Europe.

On July 14, 2008, the company put Europe's largest biogas plant into operation in Schwandorf.

Major list of Employers in Schwandorf District are: Schwandorf with its railway station is the most important hub for regional trains operated by the Oberpfalzbahn of the Länderbahn in ( Marktredwitz via Weiden to Regensburg and eastwards to Furth and Lam).

Schwandorf is connected to Bus and Rail lines to Munich, Nuremberg, Passau, Weiden and Hof and Cham.

FC Schwandorf, experienced its greatest success in the late 1950s and 1960 when it spent thirteen seasons in the third division Bayernliga.

Major migrated foreigners are from the countries Russia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Syria, Poland, Italy, Romania, India, China Schwandorf is twinned with:[3] Schwandorf also has friendly relations with Karamürsel in Turkey.