History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Avenue de l'Orée

In Dutch: Zoomlaan

Avenue de l'Orée, in Brussels, has 19 buildings on the Atlas map, for 22 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 5 periods, from the 1910s to the 2010s. 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 – 18790
1880 – 19130
1914 – 19446
1945 – 19695
1970 – 19893
1990 – 20093
since 20102

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 13: 1932. 6 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: Nature
Named in: 1916

ex. rue des Cottages (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives