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Chemnitz (German: [ˈkɛmnɪts] ⓘ; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt [kaʁlˈmaʁksˌʃtat] ⓘ, lit. ' Karl Marx City ') is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. Chemnitz is the third-largest city in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area after Leipzig and Dresden.
Oct 16, 2020 · Karl Marx Stadt was one of the most famous cities in the GDR. With the reunification followed the renaming back. We wanted to see what is left of the GDR Chemnitz.
The Bezirke were drawn without regard to the borders of the Länder and each named after their capitals, from north to south: Rostock, Neubrandenburg, Schwerin, Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder), Magdeburg, Cottbus, Halle, Leipzig, Erfurt, Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt (named Chemnitz until 1953), Gera and Suhl.
Karl-Marx-Stadt (“Karl Marx City”), as Chemnitz was known from 1953 to 1990, continued to be a centre for machine construction and had 315,000 residents by the end of the 1980s. The profound political and economic changes that began in autumn 1989 led to the establishment of local self-government and administration and the development of ...
Let’s be clear from the start: Karl Marx never came here. Nevertheless, Chemnitz was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt on 10 May 1953 on the instructions of the GDR’s single ruling party, the SED (Socialist Unity Party).
Jun 9, 2020 · Reconstruction took place under communist rule with prefabricated concrete slab buildings, parade streets and this monumental bust, of Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism. In 1953...
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The Karl Marx Monument (‹See Tfd› 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]
