Uprise of Murska Sobota

The urban development of Murska Sobota was dictated as early as the Middle Ages bye the roads, connecting German countries with Hungary: from Radgona a wide road lead towards Szombathely, paralel to it the so-called King's road "kraljevska cesta" to Czester, Lendava and Velika Kaniza. The highway Maribor-Lendava and the railway, wich connected Murska Sobota until 1919 with the then districte centre in Szombathely and is today its destination, is nowadays its main connection with the capital of Slovenia and the world highway Maribor-Lendava. Medieval setlement grew by the parish church of St. Nicholas which is supposed to date from as early as 1071, but certainly from the middle of the 13th century.