164 - Corps Brunsviga Göttingen, beer barrel cap (Tönnchen) with embroidered Zirkel and fraternity ribbon

Corps Brunsviga Göttingen, beer barrel cap (Tönnchen) with embroidered Zirkel and fraternity ribbon Textile. Beer barrel cap (Tönnchen), also Kopfcouleur, and student fraternity ribbon (Burschenband), Corps Brunsviga Göttingen. 1) Beer barrel cap with black top, on it a silver-coloured embroidered Zirkel (fraternity monogram) with exclamation mark, grey braid all round, below it broad stripes in cream-white and light blue, inside orange lining with maker's stamp and the place name Göttingen, worn condition commensurate with age, D. approx. 17 cm. 2) Student fraternity ribbon with three stripes in black, cream-white and light blue, with light-coloured percussion and round light-coloured ribbon button, worn condition commensurate with age, ribbon L. 102 cm The Tönnchen, properly Biertonne (beer barrel cap), is the small round headgear without a peak that fraternity students wear on the back of the head; the top shows the embroidered Zirkel (fraternity monogram) in the cap colour, and the ribbon colours run round the outside as a broad stripe. The Corps Brunsviga Göttingen was founded on 11 August 1813 as Brunsvigia by students from the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the Bishopric of Halberstadt and has worn the colours black-white-light blue with silver percussion since 1828; after the small black cap its members are called Schwarze Braunschweiger. Since 1848 the corps has belonged to the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband and, together with Thuringia Jena, formed the core of the Schwarzer Kreis; the corps house on Bürgerstraße was built from 1899 to plans by Wilhelm Rathkamp.