Corps Viadrina

A place to grow

a stately villa

Corps houses

As a newly founded project, we naturally do not yet have our own Corps house. When we are guests of other fraternities, however, it is in many cases a stately villa.

Many events take place here, and there are often rooms for students as well.

You can come back to a Corps house after months or years, sit down with your Corps brothers, and it always feels as if you were there only the evening before — instantly familiar, like family.

The house of Corps Rhenania Tübingen is regarded as the first building in Germany purpose-built as a Korporationshaus, originally constructed in 1882, photo taken 2006

The most important room

The Kneipsaal

The most important room in every Corps house is the Kneipsaal, the hall where traditional gatherings ('Kneipen') take place — events with singing, speeches, and, above all, celebration.

Our goal, of course, is to find a Corps house for Viadrina as well. Until then, we use the premises of local inns and taverns — just as the earliest student fraternities in Breslau once did.

Historic Kneipsaal of Corps Suevia Tübingen, around 1900