Cluny - La Sorbonne (Paris Métro)

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Metro-M.svg Cluny - La Sorbonne
Metro de Paris - Ligne 10 - Cluny - La Sorbonne 01.jpg
Tariff zone 1
Line (s) 10Paris Metro 10.svg
place Paris V
opening February 15, 1930
Connected stations Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame
→B.Paris RER B icon.svg C.Paris RER C icon.svg
The hyphen is missing on the station signs

Cluny - La Sorbonne is an underground station on line 10 of the Paris Métro . You can change to lines B and C of the Réseau Express Régional (RER) at the underground station Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame .

location

The station is located in the Quartier de la Sorbonne in the 5th arrondissement of Paris . It is located lengthways below the Boulevard Saint-Germain , in the Latin Quarter section of this more than three kilometers long street.

Surname

It is named after the Rue de Cluny , where the Hôtel de Cluny palace was built from 1485 to 1490 . The building belonging to Cluny Abbey in the town of the same name served as accommodation for prospective abbots studying at the Sorbonne . Since 1844 it has housed the Musée de Cluny , which shows exhibits from the Middle Ages .

The nearby Sorbonne was founded in the 13th century as a theological school by Robert de Sorbon . The building complex currently houses u. a. four universities .

History and description

Tunnel in the direction of Odéon , in the middle the operating track for line 4

The station was put into operation on February 15, 1930 with the opening of the section from Odéon to Place d'Italie under the name "Cluny".

On September 2, 1939, the station was closed as part of the savings measures established by the beginning of the Second World War . After the war, due to the proximity of the neighboring stations, it was initially not re-used.

After an extensive renovation, the station, decorated with mosaics by Jean René Bazaine , reopened on December 15, 1988. The artist put the signatures of famous Sorbonne students on the vaulted ceiling. The opening of the nearby Saint-Michel - Notre-Dame station, which is served by the RER B and C lines, was decisive for the restart.

The underground station has an elliptical cross-section. It has three tracks, each with a side platform on the main line. The middle track does not have a platform, it is an operating line that leads from Maubert - Mutualité to line 4 . There is an exit towards the street at both ends of the station.

vehicles

Class MF 67 train in the direction of Boulogne - Pont de Saint-Cloud , the destination sign at the end of the train is for the opposite direction

Conventional MF 67 series trains run on Line 10 . Between 1975 and 1994 trains of the MA series ran , before that of the Sprague-Thomson type.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Unlike the Quartier de la Sorbonne, the Quartier Latin is not a district according to the Paris administrative structure
  2. ↑ The provisional route from Place Monge to Place d'Italie (from March 7, 1930 to Porte de Choisy ) was abandoned on April 26, 1931, and line 7 has been running this section since then

Web links

Commons : Cluny - La Sorbonne (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 83 .
  2. ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 270 .
  3. ↑ Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 273.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 4 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 40"  E