History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Avenue Commandant Lothaire

In Dutch: Kommandant Lothairelaan

Avenue Commandant Lothaire, in Etterbeek, has 70 buildings on the Atlas map, for 74 addresses. It was mostly built between 1945 and 1969: 66% of its buildings appear in that period.

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When the street was built

before 14000
1400 – 15990
1600 – 16990
1700 – 17990
1800 – 18490
1850 – 18790
1880 – 19130
1914 – 194421
1945 – 196946
1970 – 19892
1990 – 20091
since 20100

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

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: 1936

Hubert Lothaire (Rochefort, 1865 – Ixelles, 1929). Militaire, il embarque pour l’État indépendant du Congo en 1888, rôle actif dans la Force publique. Participe durant les années 1890 à la guerre opposant les troupes belges aux Arabos-Swahilis (Bantous musulmans), qui avaient précédé les Européens dans l’occupation du territoire et asservi les populations locales. (remark in French, as published)

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