Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

Founded	16 December 1820
Motto	Virtus sola bonorum corona!
Headquarters	Heidelberg Germany

The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg.

Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. 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). Her motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!

In the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic Saxo-Borussia was considered "the most distinguished corps of Christianity" – 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. Unlike the befriended Corps Borussia Bonn, Saxo-Borussia has never been mocked by the 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 presided the KSCV.

Saxo-Borussia is also known for her Corpshaus called Riesenstein. It is on the Gaisberg (Heidelberg).