Saxonburg featured in European Roebling documentary
The Saxonburg Museum will feature in a German documentary that may be released later this year in the United States.
The museum’s volunteer curator, Fred Caesar, said he has learned that the documentary, “The Brooklyn Bridge: An Engineering Masterpiece,” will be shown in Europe in 2023 and then made available worldwide.
“We do not know the day that it is going to be released,” said Caesar, who has stayed in touch with the production company over the past year.
Caesar said that once the program appears in Europe, the English version of the documentary will be made available for viewing to a Saxonburg audience.
“They said they would send me a copy in English,” Caesar said, but no decision has been made as to how or where a viewing of the documentary would take place in Saxonburg.
Caesar said a German production company, Florianfilm, videotaped portions of the documentary at the museum and other historical Saxonburg locations in October 2021. John Roebling, the inventor of the wire rope used in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, immigrated from Prussia, and with his brother, Carl, bought 1,582 acres of land on Oct. 28, 1831, in Butler County to establish a German settlement, to be called Saxonburg.
