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image by Istvan Molnar, 5 March 2003
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Bakonycsernye (in Slovakian: Cerna) is a village in Fejér
county in Hungary near to Town of Mór (15 km west) in the Gaja
Valley of the Bakony Mountains. The village has got 3189
inhabitants (2001 census), nearly all of them are Hungarian, only
38 (1,2%) Slovakian, 12 (0,4%) Gipsy and 7 (0,2%) German by
ethnicity. Two of the Official Ethnic Minorities of Hungary has
got ethnic council in the village: Slovaks and gypsies.
Neighbouring settlements are Súr, Szápár, Jásd, Tés,
Isztimér, Balinka and Nagyveleg villages.
The first mention of the settlement is from 1341, but some of the
settlements on the nowadays territory of Csernye was mentioned
earlier. The name of the settlement is Slav - Cerny means black.
The villages were devastated at the time of the Turkish war.
1724-1726 Csernye was resettled with Lutheran Slovaks from Nyitra
and Trencsén counties (now Slovakia). In 1910 Csernye was a
village in the Zirc district of Veszprém County. Number of its
inhabitants in 1910: 2054; 1832 (89,2%) Hungarian, 219 (10,7%)
Slovakian and 3 (0,1%) other by mother tongue, 1543 (75,1%)
Lutheran, 384 (18,7%) Roman Catholic, 90 (4,4%) Calvinist and 37
(1,8%) other by religion. After the WWII about 500 of the
Slovakian inhabitants had moved to Slovakia. In 1956 the village
was annexed to Fejér county
Symbolism of the Coat of Arms: The hills relate to the
Bakony Mountains, the castle on the hill relates to the medieval
castle 'CSIKLINGVÁR' on the top of the hill. The seven starts
relate to the medieval settlements on the territory of the
village, the silver wavy stripe relates to the Gaja brook and the
oak branch relates to the forest of the Bakony Mountains. The coat of arms
and the flag was adopted in 1997. The flag is white, on the
center there is a coat of arms of the village. Ratio 2:3.
Sources: Photo
taken by me in the Mayor's Office of the municipality. Historical
data and coat of arms from <www.freeweb.hu/csernyin>,
<www.morpont.hu/k_csernye.htm>
and <bakonyalja.fejer.hu/bakonycsernye>.
Istvan Molnar, 5 March 2003
