Karl-Marx-Haus

When we visited Köln in February, we stayed at an apartment that was a few steps from the editorial office of Karl Marx's former newspaper Neuen Rheinischen Zeitung. Our hotel in Trier is around the corner from Karl-Marx-Haus, the house where he was born.

We visited this museum before we hit the road in the morning. It has nice displays of Marx's life and work, but not a lot of his artifacts are shown. This is because much of his accumulated papers were destroyed when Nazi confiscated the building for its own use as a printing house in the 1930s.

It is tacky, but we couldn't resist. We bought a bottle of Karl-Marx red wine as souvenir. The grapes supposedly came from the surrounding area.