Liège: station history
Served by: metro line 13.
Did you know?
A line 13 station, opened by the Société du Nord-Sud under the name Berlin, with the first branch of line B, between Saint-Lazare and Porte de Saint-Ouen. At the start of the First World War it closed, then reopened the same year renamed Liège, as did the street of the same name. The name pays tribute to the resistance of the Belgian city of Liège against the German attack. It is in a covered trench under rue d'Amsterdam, on either side of rue de Liège.
Anecdote
It is one of only two Paris stations with fully offset platforms, along with Commerce on line 8, because the street is too narrow. Closed at the start of the Second World War, it reopened after twenty-nine years, with reduced hours; it was the last to keep them, until 2006. Its eighteen ceramic frescoes from Welkenraedt, installed in 1982, depict landscapes and monuments of the province of Liège. The "café liégeois" has the same origin as the station's name.
Around Liège
- Église de la Trinité, 550 m away — Built from 1861 to 1867 by Théodore Ballu in a neo-Renaissance style, it has a 65-m bell tower and a Cavaillé-Coll organ of 1869. Olivier Messiaen was its titular organist from 1931 to 1992.
- Gare Saint-Lazare, 140 m away — Paris's second-busiest railway station, frequently painted by Claude Monet in the 1870s.
- Rue de Liège, 170 m away — A quiet street in the 9th arrondissement, surrounded by elegant Haussmann-era buildings.