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The Karl Marx Monument (German: Karl-Marx-Monument) is a 7.10m (23.29ft)-tall stylized head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, Germany. The heavy-duty sculpture, together with the base platform, stand over 13 meters (42 feet) tall and weighs approximately 40 tonnes.[1] On a wall just behind the monument, the phrase "Workers of the world, unite!" (from the Communist Manifesto) is inscripted in four languages: German, English, French and Russian.

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Karl Marx Monument

Karl-Marx-Monument in Chemnitz
Location	Chemnitz
Designer	Lev Kerbel
Type	Stylized head
Material	Bronze
Height	7.10m (23.29ft)
Beginning date	10 May 1953
Opening date	9 October 1971
Dedicated to	Karl Marx

It is the most famous monument in the inner city of Chemnitz, where it has gained the nickname "Nischel",[2] which is derived from the Saxon term for head or skull.

History

After renaming the city and the district of Chemnitz to Karl-Marx-Stadt on 10 May 1953 for Karl Marx Year, the East German government decided to honour the namesake of the city, and hired a Soviet sculptor, Lev Kerbel, to design a monument.

The monument was cast in the art foundry Monument Skulptura in Leningrad in bronze and then broken down into 95 pieces. In Karl-Marx-Stadt, these items were to be welded together again, but the Soviet technology was not suitable. Instead, it was decided to transfer the job to the VEB Germania. The monument stands on two pedestals with Korninskij granite, named after the mining region in southern Ukraine.

On 9 October 1971, the monument was inaugurated before a crowd of around 250,000 people along Karl-Marx-Allee (popularly referred to as "Nischelgasse" ("Skull Alley"), today's Brückenstraße).

As the landmark of the city, it served during holidays in the German Democratic Republic as a backdrop for pageants and other mass events. The monument remained intact after German reunification, although the proposed demolition of the monument led to a heated debate when Karl-Marx-Stadt returned to its former name of Chemnitz. Many other cities around the world at that time reported interest in buying the monument; there have been discussions about a sale to Cologne.

Until 2007, the motto of the city was "Stadt mit Köpfchen" (the city with heads/brains), referring to the monument.

See also

• List of statues of Karl Marx
• List of statues of Vladimir Lenin
• List of statues of Stalin

References

External links

• online Book on the statue, in German

На других языках

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[de] Karl-Marx-Monument

Das Karl-Marx-Monument ist eine 7,1 m (mit Sockel über 13 m) hohe und ca. vierzig Tonnen schwere Plastik, die den Kopf von Karl Marx stilisiert darstellt.[1] Sie wurde nach einem Entwurf des sowjetischen Künstlers Lew Kerbel (1917–2003) realisiert und 1971 eingeweiht. Es ist das bekannteste Wahrzeichen der Stadt Chemnitz und befindet sich im Stadtzentrum an der Brückenstraße nahe der Kreuzung zur Straße der Nationen. Bei diesem Denkmal handelt es sich, nach dem 60 cm höheren Lenin-Kopf in Ulan-Ude, um die zweitgrößte Porträtbüste der Welt.[2] Auf der hinter dem Monument gelegenen Wand an der „Parteisäge“ (umgangssprachlich für das Gebäude des ehemaligen Rates des Bezirkes, mit seiner sägezahnförmig fortgeführten Bebauung, die in den 1980er Jahren der SED-Bezirksleitung als Domizil diente) sieht man den Schriftzug „Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch!“ aus dem Kommunistischen Manifest in den vier Sprachen Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch und Russisch. Diese Wand gestaltete ein Künstlerkollektiv, an dem der Grafiker Helmut Humann (1922–1996) beteiligt war. Hinter dem Monument befindet sich derzeit ein Standort des Landesamtes für Steuern und Finanzen.

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- [en] Karl Marx Monument, Chemnitz

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[ru] Памятник Карлу Марксу (Хемниц)

Памятник Карлу Марксу (монумент Карла Маркса[1], нем. Karl-Marx-Monument) — монумент в честь Карла Маркса, основоположника марксизма, немецкого философа, социолога, экономиста, политического и общественного деятеля, одного из авторов «Манифеста коммунистической партии» и классического научного труда по политической экономии «Капитал. Критика политической экономии»[2].

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