History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Avenue de l'Arbalète

In Dutch: Kruisbooglaan

Avenue de l'Arbalète, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 52 buildings on the Atlas map, for 52 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 56% 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 – 18792
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19441
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 198929
  • 1990 – 200918
  • since 20102

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
Symbolic name
Theme
Sport and leisure
Named in
1906

ex. rue de l'Arbalète (remark in French, as published)

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