Segnitz

Segnitz is a municipality in the district of Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany, 25 km south of Würzburg on the Main river. The village is well known as the home of Renaissance master builder Hans Keesebrod, horticulture and wine and has less than 850 inhabitants.

Segnitz
Coat of arms
Location of Segnitz within Kitzingen district
Segnitz
Segnitz
Coordinates: 49°40′N 10°8′E
CountryGermany
StateBavaria
Admin. regionUnterfranken
DistrictKitzingen
Municipal assoc.Marktbreit
Government
 • MayorMarlene Bauer (No party)
Area
 • Total2.76 km2 (1.07 sq mi)
Elevation
181 m (594 ft)
Population
 (2019-12-31)[1]
 • Total822
 • Density300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
97340
Dialling codes09332
Vehicle registrationKT
Websitewww.kitzingen.de

Italo Svevo, Samuel Spier and Segnitz

Segnitz is especially famous as the place in which Triestine writer Italo Svevo (pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz) and his Brother Adolfo spent four school years (1874-1878) in a famous private boarding school, called the Brüsselsche Institut. Another Brother, Elio, came to Segnitz 1876-78.[2] In contrast to his brothers he got homesick, but wrote a diary about his time in Segnitz. This diary is now an important source for the obviously "social" background in Svevo's writing.[3]

The Brüsselsche Institut existed from 1838 until 1881 and was run by director Samuel Spier, who had been one of the founding fathers of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Spier had come to Segnitz 1872 after the Franco-Prussian War in a self-imposed exile after he had been accused in the first high treason trial of the newly founded German Empire. (Spier was eventually found guilty for a minor offense for which he received two months in prison.) Samuel Spier is "Mr. Beer" in Svevo's novella "L'avvenire dei ricordi" ("The Future of our Memories", originally titled by Svevo only by a date: 1. 5. 1925) whose action takes place in Segnitz.[4]

References
  1. "Tabellenblatt "Daten 2", Statistischer Bericht A1200C 202041 Einwohnerzahlen der Gemeinden, Kreise und Regierungsbezirke". Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung (in German). July 2020.
    • Hans Michael Hensel (ed.), John Gatt-Rutter: Italo Svevo, Samuel Spiers Schüler. Mit unveröffentlichten Dokumenten und einer Kurzbiographie Samuel Spiers. Segnitz: Zenos Verlag 1996, 35 ff.
  3. Carmine G. Di Biase: The Diary of Elio Schmitz: Scenes from the World of Italo Svevo. Leicester: Troubador Publishing 2013.
    • Hans Michael Hensel (ed.), John Gatt-Rutter: Italo Svevo, Samuel Spiers Schüler. (...). Segnitz: Zenos Verlag 1996, 19ff.
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