Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg | |
Crest: | Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg (Wappen).jpg |
Birthplace: | Ruprecht-Karls-University |
Affiliation: | KSCV |
Type: | Studentenverbindung |
Status: | Active |
Emphasis: | Dueling |
Scope: | Local |
Motto: | Latin: Virtus sola bonorum corona! |
Colors: | White, Green, Black, and White |
Chapters: | 1 |
Free Label: | Zirkel |
Address: | Riesenstein |
City: | 69117 Heidelberg |
Country: | Germany |
The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg.
Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. Its motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!. In 1829 Robert Schumann became a lifelong member. During the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states the corps participated in founding the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), an association of German-speaking Student Corps.
In the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic Saxo-Borussia was considered "the most distinguished corps of Christendom" – a reference to the 1st Foot Guards (German Empire). Wilhelm Meyer-Förster wrote a student novel (1885) and Mark Twain reported on his visit in A Tramp Abroad. Kurt Tucholsky taunted the corps with a poem.[1] Unlike the befriended Corps Borussia Bonn, Saxo-Borussia has never been mocked by satirical magazine Simplicissimus. The group was prosecuted in Nazi Germany. It dissolved on 3 July 1935 under persecution, and was recreated in 1952. In 1910 and 1998 it headed the KSCV.[2]
Saxo-Borussia is also known for her Corpshouse called Riesenstein. It is located nearby the Gaisberg (Heidelberg).