Gare de Nouvel-Avricourt, Border railway station in Avricourt, France

Gare de Nouvel-Avricourt is a long stone station building designed by Johann Eduard Jacobsthal, with a pale ashlar facade and a raised panel reading "NOUVEL - AVRICOURT". Its left section is taller, with a low-pitched roof and a row of brackets under the eaves; the right wing is lower, with rectangular upper windows and arched lower ones. A small tower block rises at the far right end.

The station was built in 1875 as Deutsch-Avricourt and marked the boundary between France and the German Empire following major territorial shifts. It became a key railway crossing point between the two countries during that era.

The station complex served as the center of a workers' colony where railway employees and their families lived in houses arranged according to their rank in the company. Walking through, you can still sense how the railway organized daily life and made social roles visible in the layout of buildings.

The station no longer operates but remains accessible and worth viewing from the outside to appreciate its architectural design. The Neo-Romanesque towers and extended structure are visible from all sides and give a sense of the station's former importance as a border crossing.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria was the station's first prominent user: on 24 August 1875 he crossed the border into France here in three saloon coaches supplied by the French government. The station had opened only that 1 June, after a cost dispute settled at 796,000 francs.