Segnitz is a municipality in the district of Kitzingen in Bavaria in Germany, 25 km south of Würzburg on the Main river.

After Brüssel’s early death, it was run by his son-in-law Dr. Louis Eichenberg who brought it to international fame and sold it to Samuel Spier at the height of its importance in 1872.

He came to Segnitz 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.

He spent seven months in prison, during which he lost part of his sizable inherited fortune, because he could not take care of his business.

All of the defendants were eventually only found guilty for a minor offense for which Spier received two months but no compensation for his losses and for being in prison more than three times longer.)