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Joseph Langer – painter, art conservator and collector, born in 1865 in Münsterberg. Lecturer at the Royal School of Arts and Artistic Crafts (Königliche Kunst- und...
Marian Kasprzyk trained in the youth academy and represented the local “Sparta” Municipal Athletic Club. Kasprzyk won Olympic bronze in Rome in 1960, followed by Olympic gold in Tokyo in...
Between 1268 and 1273, Abbey Peter wrote in Latin the famed “Book of Henryków”, continued by his successor until 1310. The Book contains the oldest written sentence in Polish:...
Münsterberg is the home town of two well-known figures of culture and show-business: The first one is Janusz Kaminski (born in 1959) - cinematographer and film director, nominated multiple times...
The Münsterberg region was the home of a number of acclaimed scholars, including: Johannes Otto von Münsterberg (1360–1416) - philosopher and theologian, professor at the University...
Wealthy towns, numerous nobility mansions and, most of all, the foundations of the Cistercian Monks of Henryków and Kamieniec attracted the most renowned European artists of the day to...
Münsterberg is a town of luck! In August 2015, one of the highest prizes in Polish state lottery was claimed there. One of the Münsterberg outlets sold the winning six numbers ticket which...
In 1924, traces of a blood-curdling crime were uncovered in Münsterberg. In the house of one Karl Denke, who had committed suicide, human flesh and bones were discovered, as well as human flesh...