Filles du Calvaire (Métro Paris)

Filles du Calvaire
Tariff zone	1
Line (s)
place	Paris III , XI
opening	May 5, 1931

View towards the parking area

Access area

Eastern access with Art Deco candelabra

Filles du Calvaire is an underground station on line 8 of the Paris Métro on the eastern edge of the Marais district .

location

The station is located on the border of the Quartier des Enfants-Rouges in the 3rd arrondissement with the Quartier de la Folie-Méricourt in the 11th arrondissement of Paris . It lies lengthways under the Boulevard du Temple.

Surname

It is named after the Rue des Filles du Calvaire, which opens into the Boulevard du Temple. It is named after the former monastery of the Order of Bénédictines de Notre-Dame du Calvaire or "Filles du Calvaire" (German: Daughters of the Calvary ), which was closed at the end of the 18th century.

History and description

The station was put into operation on May 5, 1931, when, at the beginning of the colonial exhibition in the Bois de Vincennes, the section from Richelieu - Drouot to Porte de Charenton of line 8 was opened. Under an elliptical, white-tiled vaulted ceiling, it has side platforms on two parallel tracks. To accommodate seven-car trains, it was built with a length of 105 m. To the north of the station, a double-track storage facility connects between the main tracks.

The two entrances are on either side of the Boulevard du Temple at the level of the Rue des Filles du Calvaire. They are each marked by a candelabra designed by Adolphe Dervaux in the Art Deco style .

vehicles

During the colonial exhibition, seven-car trains of the Sprague-Thomson design ran at the station ; later the train lengths were shortened to five cars. From 1975 onwards, MF 67 trains came on line 8, which were replaced by the MF 77 series from 1980 .

Surroundings

The circus building Cirque d'hiver is in the immediate vicinity .

Remarks

1. ↑ The Marais is not a district according to the Paris administrative structure
2. ↑ Because the stations of line 8 to the west of Richelieu - Drouot were initially only 75 m long, the last two wagons of a train continued to run empty from there, as they did not reach the edge of the platform

Web links

Commons : Filles du Calvaire (Paris Metro)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 103 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} 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. 241 .
3. ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 47 "  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 0"  E