Museum · Trier · Updated on 1 November 2026.
Karl-Marx-Haus is a museum in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate. This place has an audio tour of about 2 minutes, in English or Dutch. 23 of the 50 well-known points of interest nearby are within 1 km. Within 270 m you'll find a bench, a water point and a public toilet.
Audio tour · Karl-Marx-Haus
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You're standing on Brückenstraße in Trier, outside number 10. This is the house where Karl Marx was born, the thinker behind Marxism, which shaped both modern socialism and communism. Take a look at the façade. The house was built in 1727 as a baroque building, originally just two storeys high.
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The Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier is a museum, and it is known because Karl Marx was born here on 5 May 1818. He was the thinker behind the ideas that had a great influence on socialism and communism. You will find the Karl-Marx-Haus Trier museum on Brückenstraße. The Liebfrauenkirche is 574 metres away.
Museum Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier is at number 10 on the Brückenstraße. The house was built in 1727. Inside, you walk across 3 floors past an exhibition on the life of Marx as a philosopher, journalist and economist. You can see his reading chair there, a bust made by his great-grandson and a first edition of Das Kapital. In the inner courtyard stand 3 life-size statues of him.
The house was built in 1727 with 2 floors. In October 1819, the Marx family moved to a smaller house on the Simeonstraße. The property then fell into obscurity until 1904, when it was discovered that Marx had been born there. The SPD bought the house in 1928, but in 1933 it was seized, and until the end of the war a printing works producing a newspaper was housed there. After the war, the SPD got the property back, and the museum opened on 5 May 1947. The building reopened in 1983 after renovation. In 1987, the leader Erich Honecker visited the site and laid 50 roses there.
The nearest public toilet to the Museum Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier is 266 metres away on Zuckerbergstraße, and it is free to use. There are 3 public toilets within 500 metres. For drinking water, you need to walk 215 metres to Nagelstraße, and there are 2 water points within 500 metres. Benches are also available near the museum. The closest one is 82 metres away at Karl-Marx-Platz, and you will find 59 benches in total within 500 metres.
You can listen to a 2-minute audio story about the Museum Karl-Marx-Haus in Trier on the spot, in the Outdoor Pitstop app. There are also other places to visit nearby. The Liebfrauenkirche is 574 metres away, and the Kaiserthermen archaeological site is 628 metres away. Both locations have an audio story. The Römerbrücke, 699 metres away, and the Porta Nigra, 875 metres away, are also attractions with an audio story. A little further on, 1,150 metres away, lies the Amphitheater. You can listen to an audio story here too.
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Karl-Marx-Haus is located at Brückenstraße 10 in Trier.
Yes, the nearest free public toilet is 266 metres away, on Zuckerbergstraße.
The nearest bench is 82 metres away, at Karl-Marx-Platz.
Yes, there is a drinking water tap 215 metres away, at Nagelstraße.
The museum has an exhibition on the life of Marx, his reading chair, a first edition of Das Kapital and three life-size statues in the inner courtyard.
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