1702 · 1720 · 1784–1785 The castle burns, the church is builtHrad zhorí, kostol vyrastie

In 1702 fire, blamed on a lightning strike, destroyed Muráň castle, and nobody rebuilt it; from then on the lordship was run from manor houses down in the valley. In 1720 the royal chamber sold the estate to Štefan Koháry, and in the following century it passed by marriage to the Saxe-Coburg family. The other change came from Vienna: Joseph II's Patent of Toleration of 1781 allowed Lutherans to build churches again, and Revúca's congregation put up its own in 1784–1785. That building matters far more than it looks, because eighty years later the first Slovak grammar school was opened inside it.Roku 1702 zničil Muránsky hrad požiar pripisovaný úderu blesku a nikto ho už neobnovil; panstvo sa odvtedy spravovalo z kaštieľov dolu v doline. Roku 1720 predala kráľovská komora majetok Štefanovi Koharymu a v ďalšom storočí prešiel sobášom na Coburgovcov. Druhá zmena prišla z Viedne: tolerančný patent Jozefa II. z roku 1781 dovolil evanjelikom znova stavať kostoly a revúcky zbor si svoj postavil v rokoch 1784 – 1785. Tá budova znamená oveľa viac, než sa zdá, lebo o osemdesiat rokov neskôr v nej otvorili prvé slovenské gymnázium.