In 1348 the city of Nassau got given itsīs own municipal rights. In the lock of Nassau 1757, the realm baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom und zum Stein was born. As minister of finance and economics he offered relief and liberation to farmers and manifested municipal orders for the city. Even today his initiatives have helped in the structural build up of the civil civil service. He also led the Prussian-Russian alliance as an advisor against Napoleon. In the year 1945 70% of the city was destroyed. Houses and land developments were burnt to the ground. Therefor, the reconstruction of the city cneter had to be planned, paying particular attention attention to the structure and preservation of standards. The term "Nassauer" or "nassauern" is derived from the early 19th Century and itīs understanding today is somewhat difficult to explain. However, it all goes back to the wars of independence against Napoleon where it was decided at the Congress of Vienna that Europe should be newly arranged, i.e. there were 35 German small states and under it Nassau. The duchy of Nassau had however no University of their own. Thus students from Nassau had to study abroad. In order not to study abroad and appear traitorous to their country, the duke Wilhelm of Nassau decided on a convention with the Kingdom of Hanover, according to which the royal Hanover university became Göttingen the Nassauer national university. National father duke William offered students an incentive to study in Göttingen as it was 200 miles away. He offered the students a bursary in the form of free board and logdging. It was known as the "free table" and meant that students could stay in a hotel for as long as they liked and eat as much as they liked as the cost of the duke. If a Nassauer student stayed away from the "free table", a stranger would often make use of this and pretend to be a local from Nassau. From this the student expressions were developed "nassauern" and "Nassauer". These expressions are therefore used only as a reference to uninvited guests, who lived at the cost of the Duke by saying that they were from Nassau. Result: Nassauer were (and are!) not "Nassauer", but we are proud to have the first social system, so we are proud to be from Nassau!