History of a street · 1020 Brussels

Avenue de Busleyden

In Dutch: de Busleydenlaan

Avenue de Busleyden, in Brussels, has 43 buildings on the Atlas map, for 60 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 70% 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 – 19441
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19897
1990 – 200930
since 20105

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 48: 1937.

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: Belgian state
Named in: 1937

'Dénommée avenue Ockeleere par arrêté du Collège de la Ville de Bruxelles du 26.03.1937, l’artère fut rebaptisée avenue de Busleyden le 27.04 de la même année, du nom d’une famille qui fut châtelaine à Heembeek du XVe siècle à 1620.' Urban (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives