Owners of the land

After the Szechys became extinct Peter Szapary bought a part of the town land in 1687 and with the King's assent became the owner of Sobota in 1690. The family Szapary had a patronage over the town all until the First World War, the castle building , mentionet by some sources as early as in the 14th century, was sold to the Sobota Community in 1034. From 1094 till 1176 Murska Sobota was subjected to the administration of the diocese in Zagreb, until 1777, however, to that of the diocese in Gyoer, when its fell to the diocese in Szombathely. From 1923 and later also from the formal jurisdiction in 1964 it belongs to the dioceseof Maribor.