Staré Město (German: Mährisch Altstadt) is a town in Šumperk District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic.

Staré Město consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census):[2] After the founding of the village, the name Goldeck/Goldek (i.e. 'gold corner') was the first to be used.

The Králický Sněžník peak lies about 9 km (6 mi) northwest of the town, outside the municipal territory.

Václav of Zvole restored the glory of the former mining town in the mid-16th century and made it a trading and craft centre; linen became the most important.

Eliška Petřvaldská had the wooden houses on the square replaced with brick ones, and had the new town hall and church built.

Properties of the family were confiscated from them after the Battle of White Mountain and sold to Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein in 1624.

[3] In 1645, during the Thirty Years' War, the Swedish soldiers looted Staré Město and burned down half of it.

The town was strongly militarized in the interwar period due to its strategic position near the German border at Kłodzko Pass and due to the rise of the nacionalist Sudeten German Party under Konrad Henlein, who attacked the Czech minority.

Extensive construction of the border fortifications began here in 1937, and in 1938 the town was given a permanent Czechoslovak military garrison.

During World War II, the town was incorporated into Nazi Germany and administered as a part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.

The region of Staré Město lost its strategic military position as the former German territories in the northwest fell to Poland, therefore nearby woods could be exploited.

[8] The Czech-Polish road border crossing Staré Město / Nowa Morawa is located in the Kłodzko Pass.

Other sights include preserved burger houses or a fountain with a statue of Neptune on the town square from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.