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Traces of the Siebold family in Würzburg — many a Würzburg citizen will be able to lead a guest in this town to the Sieboldstraße, Sieboldshöhe, a Siebold monument, the Siebold-Gymna-sium (secondary school), and perhaps even to the more recent Siebold Museum. Those traces are easy for a stranger to find on the city map. The places where the Siebold family lived and operated in Würzburg are rather more hidden, however, and fewer people know about them. We wish to invite you, therefore, to join a Würzburg tour “on the trail of the Siebold family”.
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Thomas Heiler, Das Weingut und Krankenhaus Juliusspital, in: Bayerisches Kulturmosaik, 1/97, p. 60.
Carl Gottfried Scharold, Würzburg und die umliegende Gegend, Stahel, Würzburg, 1805, p. 255.
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The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung printed a reported on 15 April 1997 (p- 13) about “Europe’s first obstetric house in Berlin” and its tenth anniversary: “Many ideas, such as rooming in and the parturition stool, have been adopted by hospitals. The midwives are proud to report on very well attended training courses for hospital mid-wives about ‘positions during parturition”‘. Obviously, the knowledge imparted by the Siebold family in Würzburg 200 years ago, and later in Berlin by Elias von Siebold, has to be reacquired laboriously in modern times.
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The Corps Moenania preserves two copies of the annual report 1813/14 and 1814.
For further information see Udo Beireis, The Brandenstein-Zeppelin family — 100 years family possessions in the castle of Brandenstein, in: Ausstellungskatalog zum 200. Geburtstag Philipp Franz von Sie-bolds, Nagasaki 1996, pp. 24–29.
The Würzburg Siebold Museum was inaugurated in 1995 and it welcomes you at Frankfurter Straße 87, in the former villa of the directors of a brewery.
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After her husband died in 1798, the widow Apollonia von Siebold, née Lotz, moved to her brother’s home in Heidingsfeld, beyond Wiir-zburg’s town gates, in 1809. This brother was a parson and, from 1821, a member of the Würzburg cathedral chapter. She kept house for him for “more than 30 years” (according to the last will of Franz Josef Lotz, ed. E. von Soder-Güldenstubbe, WDGBL 57,1995, p. 375). When he died, Apollonia lived in Martinsgasse 5, between 1838 and 1841 at Vor dem Sandertore (Körner, p. 558, Anm. 42). In 1845, Philipp Franz called his mother to Leiderdorp, where she died soon afterwards.
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Philipp Franz von Siebold’s memory is cherished up to the present day by this students’ fraternity. On the occasion of his 200th anniversary, a reception was given on the premises of this fraternity (Mer-gentheimer Straße 14) in the presence of Mayor Ito of Nagasaki and Mayor Weber of Würzburg.
The tomb, in which his wife Helene von Gagern also found her last resting-place, is on view in the Alter Südlicher Friedhof (ancient southern cemetery) in Munich, section 33, row 13, no. 5.
Thomas Memminger, Würzburger Straßen und Bauten, Würzburg, Geb. Memminger, 1921, p. 227.
C.F.L. Wildberg, Jahrbuch der Universitäten Deutschlands, 1810, P. 334f.
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Beireis, U., Klein-Langner, W. (2000). On the Trail of the Siebold Family in Würzburg. In: Philipp Franz von Siebold and His Era. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04001-0_7
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