Opening hours / Openingstijden  :

Museum - November - March  ( november tot maart ) : Tues - Sun ( Dinsdag - Zondag ) 10 AM - 13 PM ., 15 PM - 18 PM

Monday ( Manndag ) 15 PM - 18 PM

April  - October : Tues - Sun (Dinsdag - Zondag ) 10 AM - 18 PM

Monday ( Manndag )13 PM - 18 PM

Studienzentrum ( Studiencentrum )

Mon - Fri  ( Maandag - Vrijdag  ) 10 AM - 13 PM . and 14 PM - 17 PM

The house , a typical Trier baroque middle-class dwelling , was built in 1727 . On April 1,1818 , the lawyer Heinrich Marx rented the house and on May 5 of the same year Karl Marx was born here .In October 1819 , the family purchased a smaller house in Simeonstrabe ( now no.8) where Marx lived until he left school in 1835 . A commemorative plaque marks this house .

It was not until 1904 that the actual location of the house in BruckenstraBe (now no.10) was identified . In 1928 , the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) acquired the house . Having previously served as a residential and commercial building ,the house was restored in the style of the 18th and 19th centuries in 1930 / 31 . The opening as a emeorial to MArx and Engels , scheduled to take place on May 5 ,1931 , had to be postponed due to the tense economic and political situation . In May 1933 , the house was expropriated by the Nazis who used it as their party headquarters and as the editorial and printing offices of their Nationalblatt. After World War  2 the SpD was given their property back .

German social democrats and an International Committee for the Reconstruction of the Birthplace of Karl Marx organized the restoration of the house as a memorial centre . On May 5 , 1947 , it was ceremoniously inaugurated . On the 150th anniversary of Marx's birth in 1968 , the house was consigened to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and since then it has been used as a museum , library , research institute , and place of international meeting . Closed in 1982 for a renovation the museum was reopened on March 14 , 1983 , the 100th anniversary of Marx's death , with a more extensive and more modern exhibition . ( For further information see J . Herres , Das Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier , 1993 ) Between 1968 and 1994 more than half a million visitors were recorded . Since 1981 , the library and archives and other reseach facilities have been housed in a newly built study centre in close proximity to the museum . As from 1990 this study centre also ontributes to the new complete edition of the works of Marx and Engels (MEGA) .

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Museum Karl-Marx-Haus (Ground Floor)

There is also a visitors 'book in which you can make an entry  after your tour through the house .

In---ter--na---tio---nal--- e---unites       the hu-----man -----race !!!!!! 

People who have  great contributions to mankind enjoy everlasting fame .

I will remember you forever .......Karl Marx , Frederick Engels .     

( Buyo 14-03-2004 ) buyo@red-sparks.com

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