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Smiley says that the pride of the cities on their "great sons" is actually quite unjustified, for really big are not the favorite playing in their hometown favorite playing grounds but somewhere else now.
In Röblingstraße No.5 a memorial plaque on a known Mühlhäuser, who was born here. John Augustus Roebling was here at the 12th June 1806, the fifth child of the tobacco dealer Christoph Roebling was born.
The Roebling already been demonstrated in 1670 in Mulhouse and 1829 directed a Heinrich Wilhelm Roebling between Reiser buntings and a new paper mill one.
After school in Mulhouse, the young Roebling went to the mathematical school in Erfurt, and then at the Architectural Academy in Berlin, where he studied civil engineering and bridge building. always the innovations of technology open-minded, enthusiastic him especially the bridge and when he was on a holiday trip to Bamberg saw a suspension bridge over the Regnitz, made him the idea to construct an even larger bridge itself, and not let go.
He finished his studies in 1828 in Berlin and arrived in 1830 to Mulhouse back.
Mühlhausen was indeed at that time Prussian district town, but still the small farming town in the first factories of the developed slowly. were still the predominant farming community, traders and small craft.
1831 Johann August Roebling then emigrated with his brother Karl Friedrich Mühlhäuser and more to America.
you were not the only emigrants.
1847 the Chronicle reported: "The distress among the poor was in the winter great .. it was a lack of work and merit .. "
The economic situation in Germany at that time led many to emigrate to the" new world ".
1848 offered the Mühlhäuser agency" von Hagens son "ship traveling to America to
Hamburg and Bremen were then dieTore to the world and many went from here many times with the whole family with their last savings in the "land of opportunity,"
In Mühlhäuser weekly paper published in 1848 following display of the families Vockrodt and cooking. "In our Departure for St. Charles in North America, we tell our friends and acquaintances still a hearty farewell .. "
According to listing the shipping agent of Hagen, the voyage was to "... beautiful, fast-sailing three-masted ships, which are built for transportation of passengers and set up .." The trip to New York cost per person 29-30 dollars.
lasted even with the fast sailing ships crossing the favorite playing grounds for several weeks and accommodation in the steerage was probably far from comfortable.
for some was the dream of the great freedom in the new world for the first time a nightmare and an emigrant then wrote home
"... in New York I have the most more Cried tears of my life ... "Other
.., as the brothers soon Roebling preconceived foot and used the new opportunities offered by the booming country.
In Pennsylvania, the brothers Röblimg Mühlhauen with other emigrants from the village of Germania. .., later Saxonburg married.
1936 Roebling the native of Mulhouse Johanna Herting, with whom he had nine children.
first worked as a farmer, had Roebling, the idea of which direction of large suspension bridges do not go and he started in 1841 with the fabrication of steel cables. 
1844 projected and he built his first major canal bridge, the Allegheny Aqueduct in Pittsburgh, where these cables were used as a holding agent. 
1845 then the first suspension bridge over the Monnogahela, contributed to the steel cables of the bridge pylon construction.
between, even in the construction of railways operate, was the big goal is always to design and derBau of suspension bridges.
1851 then the suspension bridge over the Niagara, which combined with 250 meter length of the United States with Canada.
followed in 1858 the 310 meter long suspension bridge at Pittsburgh.
1867 then named after him Röblingbrücke of Cincinnati, with 322 meter length of the time was the longest suspension bridge in the world. 
In Trenton Roebling had built a factory in which the wire rope production was secured in a big way. 
1865 he began to plan and design the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the Hudson River with 486 meters should span.
A project which at that time as seemed impossible.
1869 Roebling was killed during survey work in the building and died 14 days later.
The construction of the bridge was later continued by his son and after his illness of his daughter and in 1883 completed.
created on the principle of röblingschen wire rope suspension bridges later many more bending around the world, which now reached middle span of almost 2 km long and 5 km in length.
created on the principle of röblingschen wire rope suspension bridges later many more bending around the world, which now reached middle span of almost 2 km long and 5 km in length. 
The German Post was from 2006 to 200.Geburtstag JARöblimg out a special stamp, which shows his greatest work, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. on the market under the great son of our city was honored by a statue.
Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, was always associated with the name of its founder. An old map with the map of the place.
are now the cities of Mulhouse and Saxonburg amicably together and Fun Fair 2010 took a delegation from Saxonburg part in the carnival parade.
are now the cities of Mulhouse and Saxonburg amicably together and Fun Fair 2010 took a delegation from Saxonburg part in the carnival parade.
Below some photos from the fair parade 2010, where the fair Victoria community road to the great bridge builder and remembers his time.
So Smiley says that the story of John Augustus Roebling was pretty interesting .... Let's see what else is there to report yet from and about Mulhouse ..
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