Karl Marx House
The Karl Marx House museum is a biographical and writer's house museum in Trier. In 1818, Karl Marx, the father of Marxism, which influenced both modern socialism and communism, was born in the house.Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours:
April—October: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
November—March: Tuesday—Sunday 11:00 AM—5:00 PM
Monday: 2:00 PM—5:00 PM
January 1st, December 24th—26, and December 31st: closed - Email: info.trier@fes.de
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Trier
- Also known as: “Karl-Marx-House museum”
- Address: Brückenstraße 10, Trier, 54290
- Roof shape: mansard
- Wheelchair access: no
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forum baths and Heuschreckbrunnen.
Forum baths
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Forum Baths of Trier are a ruin of a Roman bath complex in Augusta Treverorum, modern-day Trier, Germany. The baths were discovered in 1987. Forum baths is situated 190 metres southeast of Karl Marx House.
Theater Trier
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Theater Trier is the municipal theatre of the city of Trier and, as a three-branch house encompassing opera and musical, drama, and dance, one of the most important cultural institutions in the region. Theater Trier is situated 190 metres south of Karl Marx House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kernscheid and Ruwer/Eitelsbach.
Kernscheid
Suburb
Photo: Wolkenkratzer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kernscheid is a suburb, which is situated 4½ km southeast of Karl Marx House.
Ruwer/Eitelsbach
Suburb
Ruwer/Eitelsbach is a quarter of Trier, Germany. Eitelsbach was a small village at the Ruwer in Germany's Mosel region and famous for the wine estate Karthäuserhof and the associated vineyard Karthäuserhofberg, which means "Carthusians' Hill". Ruwer/Eitelsbach is situated 6 km northeast of Karl Marx House.
Hockweiler
Village
Photo: Tomukas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hockweiler is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Hockweiler is situated 7 km southeast of Karl Marx House.
Karl Marx House
- Categories: birth house, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Trier, Moselle Valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.7539° or 49° 45′ 14″ northLongitude
6.63572° or 6° 38′ 9″ eastLevels
4Operator
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roof-shape=mansardOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noWikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Thai—“Karl Marx House” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կառլ Մարքսի տուն”
- Belarusian: “Дом-музей Карла Маркса”
- Chinese: “卡尔·马克思故居”
- Chinese: “马克思故居”
- Dutch: “Karl Marx-huis”
- Dutch: “Trier/Karl Marx-huis”
- French: “Karl-Marx-Haus”
- German: “Karl-Marx-Haus”
- German: “Museum Karl-Marx-Haus”
- Italian: “Karl-Marx-Haus”
- Japanese: “カール・マルクスの生家”
- Japanese: “カール・マルクス記念館”
- Korean: “카를 마르크스 생가”
- Latin: “Karl-Marx-Haus”
- Luxembourgish: “Karl-Marx-Haus”
- Macedonian: “Куќа на Карл Маркс”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਲ ਮਾਰਕਸ ਦਾ ਘਰ”
- Persian: “خانه کارل مارکس”
- Russian: “Дом Карла Маркса”
- Serbian: “Кућа Карла Маркса”
- Spanish: “Casa de Karl Marx”
- Swedish: “Karl Marx-huset”
- Thai: “บ้านคาร์ล มาคส์”
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