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Karl-Marx-Stadt

[ kahrl-mahrks-shtaht ]

noun

  1. former name (1953–90) of Chemnitz.


Karl-Marx-Stadt

/ karlˈmarksʃtat /

noun

  1. the former name (1953–90) of Chemnitz
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Chemnitz, a city of about 247,000 residents, was known as Karl-Marx-Stadt when it and the rest of Saxony were part of the former communist East Germany.

After the Second World War, the Communist regime renamed the city “Karl-Marx-Stadt” and turned it into an industrial powerhouse.

The monument is a throwback to the city's days as a model socialist city in the former German Democratic Republic, when it was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt.

From BBC

She grew up in Chemnitz, a former East German manufacturing town that was once known as Karl-Marx-Stadt, or Karl Marx City.

Mr. Gauland was born during World War II in Chemnitz, a city that would become Karl-Marx-Stadt under East German communist rule.

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