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Karl Marx's Birthplace House in Trier

1965

A 1965 photograph of the house in Trier where Karl Marx was born, preserved as a historic site connected to his early life.

A photograph of the house in Trier where Marx was born, marking the start of his life.

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Glass lantern slide in a black mount with a handwritten label reading 'TRIER, K.-Marx-Geb.-Haus, Brückenstr. 1965'. The slide shows a color photograph of a three-story white-facade house with dark slate roof, dormer windows, shutters, and a central stone-framed doorway. A small figure stands at the right near the entrance, and a street runs along the bottom.
Karl Marx's birthplace house, Brückenstraße, Trier, 1965. Media library of Art and Visual History, Humboldt University of Berlin.

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What it is

This photograph, taken in 1965, shows the house on Brückenstraße in Trier where Karl Marx was born. It is a three-story white house with a slate roof, dormer windows, shutters, and a stone-framed doorway. The image is a glass lantern slide held in a photo archive.

Why it matters

The house marks the starting point of Marx's life in Trier, a city in the German Rhineland. Preserving and photographing the building shows how later generations treated Marx's childhood home as a historical landmark worth remembering.

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  • What does the condition and style of the house suggest about the family that lived there?
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