care facility. It include the Neo-Gothic Chapel of Saint Vincent de Paul from 1874. Notable people Hermann Edler von Zeissl (1817–1884), Austrian dermatologist Oswald Ottendorfer (1826–1900), German-American journalist, editor and philanthropist Alexander Makowsky (1833–1908), Austrian botanist, geologist and paleontologist Maximilian Felzmann (1894–1962), Austrian general Oskar Schindler (1908–1974), Sudeten German industrialist credited with saving almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust Heidi Lück (born 1943), German politician Jiří Pernes (born 1948), historian Jan Moravec (born 1987), footballer Twin towns – sister cities Svitavy is twinned with: Lądek-Zdrój, Poland Perechyn, Ukraine Stendal, Germany Strzelin, Poland Žiar nad Hronom, Slovakia References External links Town Museum and Gallery Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Populated places in Svitavy District