History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Avenue Coloniale

In Dutch: Kolonialelaan

Avenue Coloniale, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 64 buildings on the Atlas map, for 66 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 44% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18791
  • 1880 – 19132
  • 1914 – 19441
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 198928
  • 1990 – 200925
  • since 20107

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 13: 1932.

Today's buildings, grouped by the period when the Atlas map first shows building on their plot. Approximate reconstruction.

Where its name comes from

Kind of name
Commemorative name
Theme
Foreign relations
Named in
1924

Seule voirie à caractère colonial prononcé de la commune (remark in French, as published)

Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.