Avenue de l'Hippodrome
In Dutch: Renbaanlaan
Avenue de l'Hippodrome, in Ixelles, has 154 buildings on the Atlas map, for 171 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1880 to 1913, with 50% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. 73% appear before 1914.
When the street was built
- before 14000
- 1400 – 15990
- 1600 – 16990
- 1700 – 179932
- 1800 – 18490
- 1850 – 18794
- 1880 – 191377
- 1914 – 194438
- 1945 – 19691
- 1970 – 19890
- 1990 – 20091
- since 20101
The oldest individually dated building is at no. 200: 1730. 55 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.
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
- 1884
Avenue créée suite au réaménagement du quartier des étangs d'Ixelles entre 1873-1876 et indiquant la direction du champ de course de l'Hippodrome de Boitsfort, se trouvant à Uccle, fraîchement créé au même moment. (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.
