The Karl Marx House in Trier is a two-story baroque building from 1727. The article names no architect, client or materials. Marx was born there on May 5, 1818, and the family moved near the Porta Nigra in October 1819. The house was recognized for its significance in 1904, when the SPD tried to acquire it, and the party acquired it in 1928. The Nazis confiscated it in 1933 and turned it into a printing house.
The museum opened on May 5, 1947. The Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which owns it, took it over in 1968, and the house reopened after a renovation on March 14, 1983, expanded to three floors. Erich Honecker visited in 1987 and laid 50 roses. The exhibition was reworked in 2018 for Marx's bicentennial.
Exhibits include Marx's reading chair, a first edition of Das Kapital and a bust by his great-grandson. About 50,000 people visit each year, one third of them Chinese tourists.
Comments