Murska Sobota

Coordinates: 46°40′N 16°10′E / 46.667°N 16.167°E / 46.667; 16.167
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Murska Sobota
Town
From top, left to right: Murska Sobota's skyline, Evangelical Church complex, Tourist Information Center, Zvezda Hotel, Murska Sobota Cathedral, Murska Sobota Castle
UTC+02 (CEST)
Post code
9000
Area Code02
Vehicle registrationMS
Websitewww.murska-sobota.si

Murska Sobota (pronounced

Mura River in the region of Prekmurje
and is the regional capital.

Name

Murska Sobota Castle

Officially, the town is known as Murska Sobota, although informally it is usually simply referred to as Sobota by its inhabitants and Murska by people from other parts of Slovenia.[

Kanije Eyaleti, before the Treaty of Karlowitz
.

History

Rakičan-Batthyány Castle

Murska Sobota used to be

suffragan to the archdiocese of Maribor
.

Jewish community of Murska Sobota

The once significant

Jewish community of Murska Sobota was eliminated by Nazi Germany. Before World War II, a synagogue built by Lipót Baumhorn stood in Murska Sobota. It was consecrated on 31 August 1908 and demolished in 1954 by the local communist authorities after they purchased the building from a decimated Jewish community.[4] The last rabbi in Murska Sobota was Lazar Roth.[5] He was murdered at Auschwitz
.

On 26 April 1944, all of the Jews were ordered to gather in the Murska Sobota synagogue, with hand luggage only. There, they were locked up overnight without food or water, and the next morning all the Jews of Murska Sobota were transferred to Čakovec and then to Nagykanizsa, the main concentration camp before their final destination of Auschwitz.[6]

On 29 January 2010, the first

Holocaust memorial in Slovenia was unveiled at the Murska Sobota railway station. It is dedicated to the exile of Jews from the Prekmurje region.[7][8]

Climate

Annual rainfall in Murska Sobota is among the lowest in Slovenia. Characterized by the instability of rainfall, severe droughts are frequent. It has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) that is uncommon in Slovenia except at higher elevations,

Climate data for Murska Sobota (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1950–2020)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 18.4
(65.1) 		22.2
(72.0) 		25.2
(77.4) 		29.7
(85.5) 		33.1
(91.6) 		35.4
(95.7) 		39.0
(102.2) 		39.7
(103.5) 		33.1
(91.6) 		28.1
(82.6) 		24.0
(75.2) 		20.1
(68.2) 		39.7
(103.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 3.7
(38.7) 		6.9
(44.4) 		11.9
(53.4) 		17.3
(63.1) 		21.6
(70.9) 		25.5
(77.9) 		27.4
(81.3) 		27.2
(81.0) 		21.8
(71.2) 		16.2
(61.2) 		9.6
(49.3) 		4.1
(39.4) 		16.1
(61.0)
Daily mean °C (°F) −0.1
(31.8) 		1.7
(35.1) 		6.1
(43.0) 		11.1
(52.0) 		15.6
(60.1) 		19.3
(66.7) 		20.9
(69.6) 		20.3
(68.5) 		15.3
(59.5) 		10.4
(50.7) 		5.6
(42.1) 		0.6
(33.1) 		10.6
(51.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −3.7
(25.3) 		−2.9
(26.8) 		0.9
(33.6) 		5.1
(41.2) 		9.7
(49.5) 		13.4
(56.1) 		14.9
(58.8) 		14.6
(58.3) 		10.4
(50.7) 		6.0
(42.8) 		2.2
(36.0) 		−2.6
(27.3) 		5.7
(42.3)
Record low °C (°F) −30.4
(−22.7) 		−28.2
(−18.8) 		−23.7
(−10.7) 		−7.1
(19.2) 		−4.3
(24.3) 		0.5
(32.9) 		3.4
(38.1) 		2.7
(36.9) 		−2.9
(26.8) 		−8.7
(16.3) 		−16.8
(1.8) 		−26.8
(−16.2) 		−30.4
(−22.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 28
(1.1) 		39
(1.5) 		42
(1.7) 		50
(2.0) 		84
(3.3) 		95
(3.7) 		96
(3.8) 		94
(3.7) 		100
(3.9) 		70
(2.8) 		66
(2.6) 		47
(1.9) 		812
(32.0)
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) 4
(1.6) 		5
(2.0) 		1
(0.4) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		0
(0) 		1
(0.4) 		3
(1.2) 		1.1
(0.4)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 9 8 9 11 13 13 12 11 11 10 12 10 130
Average snowy days (≥ 0 cm) 13 11 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 39
Average
relative humidity
(%) (at 14:00) 		75 62 56 51 51 53 50 51 56 63 73 80 60
Mean monthly sunshine hours 72.5 108.5 153.8 197.7 244.6 257.5 276.1 262.8 182.2 133.7 71.7 56.1 2,017.2
Source 1: Slovenian Environment Agency (humidity and snow 1981–2010)[9][10]
Source 2:
NOAA (sun 1991–2020)[11]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Slovenia

Twin towns – Sister cities

Murska Sobota is

twinned
with:

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Murska Sobota include the following:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Slovenski pravopis 2001: Murska Sobota".
  2. ^ a b Radkersburg und Luttenberg (map, 1:75,000). 1894. Vienna: K.u.k. Militärgeographisches Institut.
  3. ^ Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 276.
  4. ^ Benko, Andreja (2018). "Kljubovalna judovska sinagoga v Murski Soboti / Die beständige Synagoge in Murska Sobota". VII: Das Magazin der Sloweninnen und Slowenen in der Steiermark: 56–69.
  5. ^ History of the Jews in Murska Sobota
  6. ^ Jews of Murska Sobota
  7. ^ "Memorial to Exiled Jews Unveiled in Murska Sobota". STA. 29 January 2010.
  8. ^ "A memorial dedicated to the exile of Jews from the NE region of Prekmurje is unveiled at the Murska Sobota train station". STA. 29 January 2010. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
  9. ^ "Rakičan (pri Murski Soboti) Podnebne statistike 1950-2020" (in Slovenian). Slovenian Environmental Agency. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Murska Sobota Climate Normals 1981-2010" (PDF). Slovenian Environmental Agency. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  11. ^ "Murska Sobota Climate Normals 1991–2020". World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020). National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 4 September 2023.

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