Karl Marx Monument

The Karl Marx Monument is a 7.10m tall adapted head of Karl Marx in Chemnitz, Germany. The uncompromising figure, together with the base stage, remain more than 13 meters tall and loads around 40 tons. On a divider simply behind the landmark, the expression "Specialists of the world, join together!" from the Communist Manifesto is inscripted in four dialects: German, English, French and Russian.

It is the most renowned landmark in the inward city of Chemnitz and the second-biggest bust on the planet, after the 60 cm higher Lenin's head in Ulan-Ude, Russia. There is an outstanding neighborhood epithet for the landmark: "Nischel", which is gotten from the Central German expression for head or skull. In the wake of renaming the city and the district of Chemnitz into Karl-Marx-Stadt on May 10, 1953 for Karl Marx Year, the East-German government chose to respect the namesake of the city, and contracted a Soviet artist, Lev Kerbel, to plan a landmark.

The landmark was thrown in the craftsmanship foundry Monument Skulptura in Leningrad in bronze and after that separated into 95 pieces. In Karl-Marx-Stadt, these things were to be welded together once more, yet the Soviet innovation was not reasonable. Rather, it was chosen to exchange the activity to the VEB Germania. The landmark remains on two platforms with Korninskij stone, named after the mining locale in southern Ukraine. Until 2007, the maxim of the city was "Stadt mit Kopfchen", alluding to the landmark.