Oberkampf (Paris Métro)

Oberkampf ([ɔbɛʁkɑ̃f]) is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Line 5 and Line 9 and located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Oberkampf
Paris Métro station
Line 9 platforms at Oberkampf
Location	20, rue de Crussol 18, boul. Voltaire 19, boul. Voltaire 43, boul. Voltaire 11th arrondissement of Paris Île-de-France France
Coordinates	48°51′49″N 2°22′13″E
Owned by	RATP
Operated by	RATP
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	17 December 1906 (1906-12-17)
Services
Preceding station   Paris Métro   Following station Richard-Lenoir toward Place d'Italie République toward Bobigny – Pablo Picasso République toward Pont de Sèvres Saint-Ambroise toward Mairie de Montreuil
Location
Oberkampf Location within Paris

History

The station was opened on 15 January 1907, a month after the opening of the extension of line 5 from Quai de la Rapée to Lancry (now called Jacques Bonsergent) on 17 December 1906. The line 9 platforms were opened on 10 December 1933 with the extension of the line from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Montreuil. The name refers to Rue Oberkampf, named for Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, an 18th-century German-born French industrialist.

Service for travellers

Access

The station has four accesses, all of which consist of fixed stairs:

• access 1 - Boulevard Voltaire - Cirque d'Hiver, adorned with a Dervaux candelabrum, opening on Boulevard Voltaire cnr. Rue de Crussol;
• access 2 - cnr. rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud / Boulevard Voltaire;
• access 3 - no. 19 Boulevard Voltaire close to cnr. of Rue Amelot;
• access 4 - cnr. Rue Oberkampf and no. 43 Boulevard Voltaire.

Station layout

Street Level

B1	Mezzanine for platform connection

Line 9 platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Westbound	← toward Pont de Sèvres (République)
	Eastbound	→ toward Mairie de Montreuil (Saint-Ambroise) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Line 5 platforms	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	← toward Place d'Italie (Richard-Lenoir)
	Northbound	→ toward Bobigny – Pablo Picasso (République) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

• Notes: The two République-bound tracks run in the same direction on the same level, and the line 5 and line 9 platforms are offset.

Platforms

The platforms for the two lines are of standard configuration, two at each stop point, separated by the metro tracks in the centre and the arch is elliptical.

Line 5 is decorated in the style used for most metro stations: the lighting strips are white and rounded in the Gaudin style of the 2000s Metro revival, and white bevelled ceramic tiles cover walls, spandrels and outlets in the corridors. The vault is coated and painted white. The advertising frames are in a white ceramics and the name of the station is written in Parisine typeface on enamelled plates. The seats are Akiko style yellow.

The platforms of line 9 are arranged in a similar style. The lighting strips are of the same model, and the white ceramic tiles cover the walls, the spandrels as well as the outlets of the corridors, but also the vault. In contrast, the advertising frames are in a faience honey colour and the name of the station is also faience, in the original CMP style. The seats are Motte style orange.

Bus connections

The station is served by lines 56 and 96 of the RATP Bus Network; and, at night, by the lines N01 (inner circular starting from the Gare de l'Est) and N02 (circular outside starting from the Gare Montparnasse) of the Noctilien bus network.

Nearby

• Rue Oberkampf: popular and well served, it enjoys a liveliness popular with Parisians.
• Bataclan Theater

References

• Arnold Delaney (2006). Paris by Metro: An Underground History. Interlink. ISBN 1-56656-646-0.

External links

• Media related to Oberkampf (Paris Metro) at Wikimedia Commons