Commercium

A commercium (plural commercia) is a traditional academic feast known at universities in most Central and Northern European countries.

Today it is still organised by student fraternities in Germanic and Baltic countries, as well as Poland.

There are strict and traditional rules that govern this occasion but it may also integrate theatrical and musical aspects.

German associations like firefighters or Schützenvereine started to arrange commercia in the 19th century and still do on special occasions.

In the last years of communist Eastern Germany, some students managed to arrange for new founded fraternities, e.g. Salana Jenensis in Jena and organized commercia on the Rudelsburg.