[3][2] This was a concept promoted by Jakob Friedrich Fries, a lecturer at the University of Jena at the time.

[4] Despite its success at Jena, the group was unsuccessful in achieving its goal of establishing a single student fraternity for all universities.

[2] Many founding members of the Jena Burschenschaft had been fighting in the Lützow Free Corps during the Wars of Liberation; uniforms of the Royal Prussian Free Corps von Lützow were black, with red trim, and golden-colored brass buttons.

[2] When Urburschenschaft became defunct in 1819, Daniel August von Binzer wrote the song "We had built a stately house".

[2] A verse from the song is, "The ribbon was cut, it was black, red and gold, and God suffered it, who knows what he wanted!