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Oberkampf
Line 9 platforms at Oberkampf
General information
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 / 48.86350°N 2.37025°E / 48.86350; 2.37025
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-Lenoirtowards Place d'Italie Line 5 Républiquetowards Bobigny–Pablo Picasso Républiquetowards Pont de Sèvres Line 9 Saint-Ambroisetowards Mairie de Montreuil
Location OberkampfLocation within Paris

Oberkampf (French pronunciation: [ɔbɛʁkɑ̃f]) is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Lines 5 and 9 and located in the 11th arrondissement of 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

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, tunnel exits, and outlets in the corridors. The vault is coated and painted white. The advertising frames are in a white ceramic 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 tunnel exits 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

Gallery

• Line 9 platform station – MF 01 rolling stock at Oberkampf in 2021
• Line 5 platform station
• MF 01 rolling stock on Line 5

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

v t e Line 5
Stations	Bobigny–Pablo Picasso Bobigny–Pantin–Raymond Queneau Église de Pantin Hoche Porte de Pantin Ourcq Laumière Jaurès Stalingrad Gare du Nord Gare de l'Est Jacques Bonsergent République Oberkampf Richard-Lenoir Bréguet–Sabin Bastille Quai de la Rapée Gare d'Austerlitz Saint-Marcel Campo Formio Place d'Italie

v t e Line 9

Stations

Pont de Sèvres Billancourt Marcel Sembat Porte de Saint-Cloud Exelmans Michel-Ange–Molitor (eastbound only) Michel-Ange–Auteuil (westbound only) Jasmin Ranelagh La Muette Rue de la Pompe Trocadéro Iéna Alma–Marceau Franklin D. Roosevelt Saint-Philippe du Roule Miromesnil Saint-Augustin Havre–Caumartin Chaussée d'Antin–La Fayette Richelieu–Drouot Grands Boulevards Bonne Nouvelle Strasbourg–Saint-Denis République Oberkampf Saint-Ambroise Voltaire Charonne Rue des Boulets Nation Buzenval Maraîchers Porte de Montreuil Robespierre Croix de Chavaux Mairie de Montreuil Aristide Briand (planned) Montreuil–Hôpital (planned)

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• Paris Métro line 5
• Paris Métro line 9
• Paris Métro stations in the 11th arrondissement of Paris
• Railway stations in France opened in 1906
• Paris Métro stubs