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In the good old days, rich and famous families, mostly magnates, considered it one of their most sacred obligations to build churches on their property, to provide for their maintenance and to contribute to the support of the pastor. Indisputably, some privileges were also connected with these obligations, which one called Patronat privileges. It also happened that way here when in the year 1800 Count Ignatius Gyulai, Ban[115] of Croatia, acquired the chamber fields still remaining by purchase. On the 11^th of June 1801, he took possession of them. From this time on, he took over the Patronat of the parish. At that time, there was still no talk of building a church since he intended to sell the entire property after 7 years, which also really happened though with the right to repurchase!  Count Pejacsevics, who took over the property, guaranteed to the pastor at the moment an endowment, as was customary in the remaining chamber parishes. In the year 1809, Pejacsevics leased the entire property to a certain Nicolits from Timişoara. But when after 4 years the Metropolit[116] Stratimirovits from Carlovitz[117] wanted to purchase the property, Count Ignatius Gyulai asserted his right and bought back the entire property again. He also maintained it afterwards up to the year 1832 at which time he died of cholera, after he had previously—as commander-in-chief—become a holder of the golden fleece. His son Count Franz Gyulai inherited the property, who exercised the Patronat privilege for a long time until he presented the property to Baron Leopold Edelsheim, who consequently acquired all the Patronat privileges. In the year 1904, Count Leopold Edelsheim Gyulai was the lord of the manor who presented the current minister for the pastor of Neupanat in this year, who then still in the same year was appointed as pastor of the community by His Excellency Diocesan Bishop Alexander von Dessewffy on the suggestion of the lord of the manor.

In addition in the year 1917, it became public that the lord of the manor intended to sell the local property, the so-called count’s pußta. Because of that, test bids took place repeatedly but the banker Alexander Goldschmidt, who lived in Arad, offered a sum of 2 million 900 thousand Kronen,[118] therefore much more than the local inhabitants. However, the sale was not approved by the high ministry; on the contrary, the Altruisten Bank in Budapest was entrusted to parcel out the entire property of 1099 land register yokes[119] to the local inhabitants. In addition, this happened at the end of October of the year 1918 and with that the Patronat came to an end.

Now when the Romanian dominion had begun and the law about land ownership reform was created in the year 1921 and consequently produced the possibility of the expropriation of so many properties, the battle began for the property purchased in a lawful way.

The outcome was that the entire ownership of the former estate of Count Leopold Edelsheim Gyulai was expropriated and by virtue of voluntary consent of the property owners—so it is called in a ministerial communication—was resold to the owners with the removal of 282 yokes.[120] This resale, in pursuance of which there are considerable postponements regarding the properties, is just now in progress.

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