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Moeno Ripuaria celebrated the 101st foundation celebration

“Corona high, salamander incipitur!” Even those who are not immediately unfamiliar with the customs of a fraternity flinch at this greeting. When the salamander drinking ritual of the Moeno Ripuaria begins, with the rubbing and raising of the glasses, the pandemic is of course not celebrated after a long lockdown period. “Corona” means in the “scene-typical language” the guests at the Festkommers in the conference center.

According to Lukas Lesch, who helped organize the anniversary celebration, the technical student fraternity sees itself as liberal and not as a fraternity in the narrower sense. The traditions are still upheld, with saber-knocking and words of consecration (“silentium”, “fiducit”). The small latinum was not absolutely necessary, but helpful at the 101st foundation festival of the Moeno Ripuaria, whose name refers to the Main and Rhine Franconia.

“Charged” was also: The T.St.V. Moeno Ripuaria to Würzburg and Schweinfurt, the Frankonia country team to Triesdorf, the Wartburg fraternity to Mannheim, the Technical Club Vindelicia fraternity to Augsburg, the TV Franko Textoria to Münchberg and Hof, the StV Teutiona to Chemnitz and Gummersbach, the KTV Grenzmark and the TDV Feminea e Franconia, both to Schweinfurt, towards the Presidium. Other connections from all over Germany were honored in the hall.

The fact that the centenary of the founding of the member in the cooperation association BDIC was not celebrated in 2021 was of course due to (the other) Corona. It all started on Friday with a parade from the Moeno-Haus am Mühltor to the nearby town hall, to the reception with Mayor and honorary member Sebastian Remelé.

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“Moeno” was founded in the episcopal city of Würzburg

Colors were then shown on Saturday on the Maininsel. The Jugendmusikkorps Bad Kissingen performed under the direction of Matthias Zull. The opening march “Greetings to Würzburg” reminded us that the “Moeno” was once founded in the episcopal city. With uniforms, sabers and lowered flags, the officials paraded into the Great Hall.

What doesn’t quite follow the mainstream anymore today was even thought of as casual “multicultural” in the 19th century. The hussar jackets or pekes, for example, showed admiration for the rebellious Poles who had fled from the tsar. Aktivensenior Zaid Abrahim also has a “migration background”, the festival chairman comes from Afghanistan and came to Franconia via Dubai.

“When I joined the association, I only had limited knowledge of German,” says the mechatronics engineer. Now “Cicero” (as the student nickname is) promotes integration and language acquisition. At the end Mayor Soraya Lippert, who herself is of German-Pakistani origin, hugs him. Peru, Brazil and the Ukraine are also represented among around 200 members as places of origin.

Keynote speaker Steffen Vogel delivers greetings from his own connection, the close friend Adelphia Würzburg. The speech of the CSU member of parliament from the Haßberge revolves around the motto of the Moeno, “friendship, science, fatherland love”. Connections are about cultivating real, “analog” friendships, says Vogel. To acquire social skills and cohesion, even after graduation.

One is quite self-confident when it comes to values ​​and (a democratic) Germany, said the parliamentarian. This virtue was apparently in demand again during the Ukraine war: “We always believed in it.” Soraya Lippert praises the claim to live tradition and cosmopolitanism. According to the city representative, tradition is not about preserving the ashes, but about stoking the embers.

A few swipes against the zeitgeist

A long series of greetings follows, up to the “old gentleman” Kurt Vogel, who is (honorary) member of both the Moeno and the Adelphia. Bastian Brand then hands over his position as Philistine senior and quasi-chairman to Matthias Wirsching from Höchstadt. Board member Michael Haller presents the former with a certificate and the founder’s ribbon for special merits. There are a few digs at the zeitgeist in Brand’s farewell speech, as well as advertising for the chronicle. The so-called “Activitas” was founded on August 9, 1921 in Würzburg and was dissolved by the Nazis in 1935.

The restart followed in early 1951, before moving to the outskirts of Schweinfurt’s old town in 1974, a year before the complete move to the ball bearing city. It was Mayor Georg Wichtermann who campaigned for the settlement at Mühltor, in the coach house of the former horse tram. The renovation of the fraternity house is on the agenda there today, but there are delays in the extension. The “Moeno 2025” project includes recruiting young talent after the pandemic undermined many student events. The long evening closes with a batch waltz in the middle of the main stream.

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