Emma Visiting the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery
The Tomb of Karl Marx stands in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, in North London. This tomb commemorates the buirial sites of not only Marx also his wife Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of his family. These members were originally buried in a different part of the cemetery. Their bodies were disinterred and reburied at their present location in 1954.
Marx moved to London in 1849 as a political exile, originally living in Soho, he then moved to Marx moved to Maitland Park Road, in North London in 1875 and he remained her until his death in 1883.
Marx wrote some of his most notable works, including The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon and Das Kapital during this time. Karl Marx died on 14th March 1883 from a combination of bronchitis and pleurisy.
The Marx Memorial Committee applied to the Home Office for an exhumation licence in 1954 to enable the bodies of Marx, his wife, other family members and the Marxs’ housekeeper Helene Demuth to be disinterred and reburied at a new site.
The tomb was designed by Laurence Bradshaw and comprises a large bronze bust of Marx’s head and shoulders, set on a marble plinth.
The tomb was listed by Historic England in 1974, and its designation raised to the highest grade, Grade I, in 1999.
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Where
Highgate Cemetery, Swains Lane, London, N6 6PJ
Transport
There is no visitor parking.
Opening times
March to October
Open daily from 10am to 5pm
Last entry 4.30pm
November to February
Open daily from 10am to 4pm
Last entry 3.30pm
Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day
