Genealogical Records:

• Village name in FHL records: Deutsch Tschernja, Nemetcsernya, Srpska Crnja
• Filial parish of Hatzfeld, also had its own parish
• Church records available at FHL:
  1. Roman Catholic parish register of births, marriages and deaths for Németcsernya, Temes, Hungary, also called Deutsch-Tschernja, now Srpska Crnja or Nemacka Crnja, Srbija, Yugoslavia, 1808-1864, FHL Microfilm Nr.: 1190282, 1271511
  2. Roman Catholic Church register of births, marriages and deaths for Zsombolya (called Hatzfeld in German), Hungary, now Jimbolia, Romania, 1766-1851, FHL Microfilm Nr.: 858377, 858378, 858379, 1327602

Miscellaneous:

• Founded: Germans arrived 1808
• Bibliography: Tabar, Hans. Geschichte von Zerne, Heimatbuch der Schwestergemeinden Deutsch- und Serbisch-Zerne [History of Zerne, Homeland Book of the Sister Communities of Deutsch- and Serbisch-Zerne]. 1973, Munich, Oliver Ledermüller. 176 pages.
• Steger, Magdalena née Getsch, large village maps circa 1940.  1986, Karlsfeld.
  
• Location of a prisoner camp for Germans held by Partisans during World War II.

Present Geopolitical Status:

Municipality in Torontal County, Central Banat District, Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, governed by a Constitution guaranteeing basic freedoms, laws, justice, and government.

Since 1944, Deutsch-Zerne has been separated from Hatzfeld, its former filial parish, by the international border between Serbia and Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia) and Romania.

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