Enthusiasm across Marx's birthplace

More than 1,000 visitors attend ceremony in German town

TRIER, Germany - Visitors poured into the reopened Karl Marx House over the weekend, as enthusiasm runs high for the great thinker's bicentennial birth anniversary in his hometown of Trier, southwestern Germany.

"It is definitely more than 1,000 visitors yesterday. I guess there will be hundreds of visitors today," said an employee at the reception of the House on Sunday.