Corps Franconia Tübingen

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The Corps Franconia Tübingen is a corps (one of the forms of a student union ) in the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband ( KSCV ), the second oldest umbrella organization of German student associations (the date of foundation is July 15, 1848). Its members are called "The Franks". The Franconia unites students and former students of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and at the same time belongs to the Tübingen Senior Citizens' Convention (SC). The Tübinger SC also consists of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen and the Corps Borussia Tübingen .

Franconia is mandatory . The Tübingen Franconia is expected to fight at least five games (see more details on the scale system ). The first two games are fought as "fox games", in which generally only a low level is required. The student fencing weapon widespread in Tübingen is the basket bat . In addition, the so-called high comment applies to most games within the city, in which only the part of the head covered by hair is the hit area.

The active time of the corps is four semesters. The Corps Franconia Tübingen currently has around 275 members.

Fencing scene of the Corps Franconia Tübingen (left) against a representative of the Corps Suevia Tübingen from 1831

Couleur, motto, circle

Couleur des Corps Franconia Tübingen, moss green cap, corps boy ribbon in moss green-pink on gold, fox ribbon in moss green-pink-white on silver

The Corps Franconia is colored. The colors of Franconia are moss green and pink. The colors of the corps boys are moss green-pink with golden percussion , those of the Franconian foxes are moss green-pink-white with silver percussion. The two-tone corps boy ribbons are an exception among the corps. Usually the foxes wear two-tone colors, while the corps boys wear three-tone or four-tone colors. In addition to the Franconia Tübingen, only the corps boys of the Corps Corps Onoldia , Franconia Würzburg and Borussia Berlin wear a two-tone ribbon.

The Circle of the Corps Franconia Tübingen

In addition, a hat in moss green and pink belongs to the complete color scheme, which is now only worn on selected occasions, such as the pub and the bang or festive day .

The motto is: "Honor et virtus, amicitia fides" (German: "Honor and bravery, friendship and loyalty").

The Tübingen franc also cause a connection-student circles . It is made up of the following letters: VCF F. The abbreviation stands for: "Vivat, crescat, floreat Franconia" (German: "Long live, grow and prosper Franconia"). Until 1821 the saying: "Vivat Circulum Fratrum Franconorum" (German: "Long live the circle of Franconian brothers") was used.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Corps Franconia

The Franconian coat of arms is a German shield that can be read heraldically (mirror image from right to left; from the point of view of the supposed bearer). It consists of five parts:

  • The center shield bears the circle of francs on a white background .
  • On the top right of the shield , the Franconian colors moss green-pink run from top right to bottom left.
  • A phoenix rising from the flames is shown on the shield at the top left . It symbolizes the perpetual renewal in the community of young active people, middle-aged corps members and the elderly .
  • Two crossed rackets are shown on a white surface on the shield at the bottom right . These are half edged by a wreath made of laurel and oak leaves. In addition, this part of the shield shows the abbreviation GUN, which stands for the weapon slogan of the Corps: Gladius ultor noster (German: "The sword is our avenger"). With the abbreviation vKXIII this field shows an additional character ; it is the memory of the thirteen donors, in particular it is a homage to Karl Kraus (“vivat Kraus”), who has made a special contribution to the Corps Foundation. See also Bundeszeichen (student union) .
  • Two knights shake hands on the shield at the bottom left . One's helmet plume wears Hohenlohe colors, the other's Franconian colors. This symbolizes the genesis. The field itself is highlighted in red and green. On coats of arms that are less based on heraldic criteria, Brauneck Castle may be recognizable in the background . The Hohenlohia Foundation is said to have taken place at this location.
  • In addition to the shield, the coat of arms contains a forward-facing stech helmet with a helmet cover and crest in Frankencouleur moss green-pink.

history

The Corps Franconia was founded on February 16, 1821 and is therefore the oldest student union in Tübingen that has not been retrospectively dated back to a predecessor union . The association has had over 1,500 members in its history.

19th century

Winter departure of the Corps Franconia in 1907

The Corps Franconia Tübingen can in turn be traced back to the Franconia Tübingen Landsmannschaft founded in 1808. The colors of the Franconia Tübingen country team consisted of the colors green-rose-red-white, their motto was: "Freedom and brotherly love". The Landsmannschaft Franconia disbanded in 1811 due to the Napoleonic Wars . In 1815 the Hohenlohia Tübingen Landsmannschaft was founded. On February 16, 1821, Karl Kraus and twelve other members of Hohenlohia founded the Corps Franconia Tübingen, which has existed in its former form to this day. In 1825 the corps was again briefly dissolved by the Karlsbad resolutions that were now consistently implemented in Württemberg . Until 1830, when the corps was able to appear again as such, it continued to exist underground ( Die Heilbronner ). In 1857, the Corps Franconia joined the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . In the same year, on July 23, the Franconia was converted into an arms corps ; the cartel with the Corps Franconia Würzburg , which had existed since the summer semester of 1826, was then amicably resolved. In 1860 the “Frankenlied” found its way into Tübingen and from then on it was sung at the beginning of every pub / every Kommerses and other occasions (see also student songs ). In 1871, at the 50th foundation festival of the Corps, the first, but initially only loose, union of the old men took place . The Alter Tübinger Franconia Association (VATF), which still exists today, was founded in 1891. From this point on, the active corps was mainly financially supported by the old rulers.

20th century

Osterberg

After the difficult times of war, corps operations were officially resumed in 1919. Like the other Kösener Corps, Franconia ceased active operations in autumn 1935. In the late 1930s, a duel on saber took place between a representative of Franconia and the chairman of the National Socialist German Student Union . Repressions against former corps members could be averted through the intervention of some elderly gentlemen who were still in senior legal positions . At the instigation of the old rulers of Franconia, the comradeship "Theodor Körner" was formed in the winter semester of 1937/38. On April 1, 1943, the Rhenanen left the Association of Comradeship, which since then has in fact been a continuation of the suspended Corps Franconia. Between the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1943, scales were fought again. Opponents were the comradeships formed by the fraternities Germania and Derendingia as well as the black association Saxonia, which also had a mess. After the SD had initiated an investigation into fencing, the mensur operation was stopped towards the end of the winter semester 1942/43. On June 11, 1944 Franconia belonged to the corps that decided to reconstitute the suspended KSCV at the Rudelsburg . The initiative Corps Misnia IV was denounced by the Heidelberg SC comradeship and subjected to high treason proceedings by the Gestapo .

In 1949, the Tübingen Corps Franconia, Suevia and Borussia attempted to revive the life of connections in Tübingen and founded the Österberg connection with the color green-red-black. However, the Corps Franconia was able to renew itself in its own original form as early as 1950.

As in 1879, the Corps provided the Kösener suburb spokesman in 2010 .

Corporation house

  • House of the Corps Franconia Tübingen, taken from the banks of the Neckar

  • View of the corp house from the garden terrace

  • Street view from the north

  • Painted glass window with student coats of arms of the Corps Franconia Tübingen

Like most of the old connections, the Corps Franconia Tübingen has a representative connection house . It is located at the top of Österbergstrasse. In addition to publicly accessible events and internal corps events, the building also functions as a student residence . The house has a library and study rooms for the students, and a caretaker family lives there (formerly called Faxen or Corps servants ).

The foundation stone was laid in 1888 and the building was inaugurated a year later, on July 21, 1889, in the presence of the rector of the university. This first phase of construction was built in the historicist style of the neo-renaissance. It had a central building that was flanked by two towers. The facade with the front facing south towards the Neckar was made of tuff stone.

In the years 1895/96 the house was supplemented by an extensive multi-level terrace system.

Due to the prosperous times, the first major expansion and renovation of the connecting house took place in 1906, which was to double the size of the house. The new part of the house forms today's street front, which was now carried out in Art Nouveau style. The facade consists of sandstone below and is plastered above. The ridge carries a roof turret with a curved hood. On July 21, 1907, exactly 18 years after the first inauguration, the second inauguration took place, again this time in the presence of the rector. Another renovation in 1924 did not significantly change the exterior of the building.

Conditions

The corps is independent. From 1860 there was a friendly relationship with the Corps Tigurinia Zurich , which was suspended in the winter semester 1931/32 and expired in 1981. Relations with Tigurinia II do not exist. From 1927 there was an official relationship with the Corps Hansea Königsberg . Franconia Tübingen currently has relationships with eight Kösener Corps:

Cartels

Friendly relationships

Known members

Corps Franconia (1858)

In alphabetic order

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

The Klinggräff Medal of the Stifterverein Alter Corpsstudenten was awarded to:

  • Fritz Lüttgens (1987)
  • Georg Streit (1996)
  • Frank Kunath (2009)

Literature / written sources

  • Hans-Jürgen Hohenstein: Weitblick - the corp house of Franconia , in: Wilhelm G. Neusel (Hrsg.): Small castles, large villas - Tübingen connecting houses in portrait , Tübingen 2009, pp. 82–89, ISBN 978-3-924123- 70-3
  • Martin Biastoch : Duel and scale in the empire - using the example of the Tübingen Corps Franconia, Rhenania, Suevia and Borussia between 1871 and 1895 . Vierow 1995. ISBN 3-89498-020-6
  • Martin Biastoch : Tübingen students in the German Empire. A socio-historical investigation . Sigmaringen 1996 (Contubernium - Tübingen Contributions to the History of University and Science, Vol. 44) ISBN 3-515-08022-8
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Schneider-Horn, The Tübinger Franconia , VATF e. V. 1969
  • Images from the past of the Corps Franconia
  • Life pictures of the Tübingen Franconia
  • Tübinger Frankenzeitung - biannual newspaper of the Corps with a circulation of. approx. 450 copies (published in 2005 in its 84th year; over 220 issues)

Filmography / image and film sources

See also

Web links

Commons : Corps Franconia Tübingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 109.
  2. ↑ Erich Bauer: The comradeships in the area of ​​the Kösener SC in the years 1937-1945 . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 1 (1956), p. 35.