Corps Starkenburgia

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Corps Starkenburgia

coat of arms Circle
Coat of arms of the Corps Starkenburgia Circle of the Corps Starkenburgia
Basic data
University location: Giessen , Hesse
University / s: Justus Liebig University
Founding: August 26, 1826 in Giessen
Corporation association : KSCV
Responsible SC : Giessener SC
Cartel / District / AG: circular
Color status : colored
Colours: Corps boy and fox band of the Corps Starkenburgia
Cap: crimson
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: Loyalty and brotherly love
Gun motto: Gladius ultor noster
Website: www.corps-starkenburgia.de

The Corps Starkenburgia is a student union at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Always in Giessen Senior Convent and in Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband organized, it is to scale and stripes .

history

Due to ongoing majorization, members of the Corps Hassia donated the daughter corps Starkenburgia with the colors green-white-red on August 26, 1826. The name was given to the Starkenburg in southern Hesse . In 1828 the Giessen Corps and thus also the Starkenburgia were closed by the university authorities after serious disputes with fraternities. A new establishment took place in 1833 with the colors crimson-white-gold. After the Hambach Festival and the Frankfurt Wachensturm , there was an almost complete standstill of corporate life at the Hessian Ludwig University in the 1830s . On August 7, 1840, the Starkenburger appeared again in public with the colors, although it was still forbidden under the existing laws. They justified the violation of the ban with the fact that it was about the Hessian state colors and that they could not be denied this bond with the sovereign . This year was the official foundation date until 1920. In 1846 the corps took part in the students' exodus to the Staufenberg after clashes between students and the police.

Starkenburgia participated on July 15, 1848 in the Jenenser Seniors Convents Deputy Assembly and on May 26, 1855 with the other Giessen Corps in the founding of the KSCV. In 1850, an old gentlemen's meeting laid the foundation for the principle of life covenant. The corp house was inaugurated in 1894. In the years that followed, corporate life flourished in Gießen as in all other universities.

A major turning point was the First World War , in which almost 100 strong citizens took part. 26 of them fell or died as a result of the war. Corps life was resumed in the spring of 1919. In 1920 the founding of the corps was backdated from 1840 to 1826. In 1926, Starkenburgia was the first Gießen connection to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The Corps disbanded on July 31, 1935 under the pressure of conformity . From 1938 Starkenburgia, Hassia and Teutonia Gießen supervised the comradeship (student organization) with the provisional name "Hilrich van Geöns". The corp house was confiscated by the Wehrmacht in 1939 and the United States Army in 1945.

In the post-war period after the Second World War in Germany , the “Reading and Speech Hall” (LRH) was built in Gießen. The members of this student association formed the first active generation of the re-established Starkenburgia in 1948, which was approved by the university authorities in 1949. In January 1950 Starkenburgia was one of the 22 corps that joined together in the interest group and prepared the re-establishment of the KSCV. The corp house was returned to the corps in 1955 and renovated in the same year.

Starkenburgia was the presiding suburb corps in 1868, 1931 and 1967. In 1991 she was the local spokesman for the SC in Frankfurt am Main .

Colors and motto

The colors are crimson-white-gold with golden percussion . The student cap is crimson. The motto is loyalty and brotherly love!

Corp house

Corpshaus in 2014
Corpshaus in 1910

In the first decades, the home of the Starkenburger was the Pulvermühle restaurant , at that time located outside the city on the Lahn. In 1890 the foundation festival was not held in Heppenheim for the first time, but in Gießen. Plans to build their own house were discussed. In 1893 the foundation stone was laid on the acquired property at Wilhelmstrasse 38 and on October 27, 1894 the inauguration of the corp house . When planning, the architects based themselves on the name of the connection. They built a house similar to the Starkenburg with a tower and battlements. The house was rebuilt several times in the following years. An expansion took place in 1934. According to the requirements of the National Socialists, a fraternity house should be used as a student residence. Since the house had been used purely for celebrations and representation up until then, extensive work was necessary to create a sufficient number of living spaces. After the war there was renewed renovation work and an apartment for the housekeepers was added. Today the house offers space for seven residents, plus rooms for parties, a library, a meeting room and a large garden.

Conditions (friendly corps)

Starkenburgia maintains close relationships with the Kösener Corps Saxo-Borussia , Guestphalia Bonn , Silesia , Palatia-Guestphalia , Palaiomarchia , Palaiomarchia-Masovia , Rhenania Freiburg and in a traditional relationship with the former Gießen Corps Hassia-Gießen in Mainz .

Starkenburger Foundation

In 2003, six old men of the Corps Starkenburgia established the Starkenburger Foundation based in Giessen. The foundation was recognized by the regional council of Gießen as a non-profit organization. The purpose of the foundation is to promote student aid and to promote science and research at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. The foundation capital is steadily increasing with donations and donations.

Known members

Sorted by year of birth

literature

  • Wilhelm Fabricius, Karl Scharfenberg: The Starkenburgia to pour . Published by Gießen, 1890.
  • Wilhelm Fabricius: The German Corps , Frankfurt am Main 1926.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : Starkenburgia Giessen . In: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps: Their representation in individual chronicles . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , pp. 158-159.
  • Klaus-Dieter Schroth: Corps Starkenburgia - Contributions to the history of the corps (1826 to 2015) , 2 vols. Self-published, Krefeld 2015/2016.

Web links

Commons : Corps Starkenburgia Gießen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b P. Gladen (2007)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius: The German Corps: A historical representation of the development of the student liaison system in Germany up to 1815, the Corps up to the present . P. 374 ISBN 978-3-8460-4192-5
  3. ↑ Jürgen Setter: Small history of connections in Gießen , Verlag Friesland, Sande , 1983, p. 204 ISBN 978-3-9800773-0-9
  4. ↑ 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. 24.
  5. ↑ a b http://www.morgenweb.de/region/bergstrasser-anzeiger/heppenheim/die-burg-als-namensgeber-1.2851596
  6. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 47.
  7. ↑ http://www.oberhessische-zeitung.de/lokales/hochschule/aus-alter-verbundenheit_15270134.htm

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 34.28 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 16.21"  E