History of a street · 1180 Uccle

Avenue de la Chênaie

In Dutch: Eikenboslaan

Avenue de la Chênaie, in Uccle, has 90 buildings on the Atlas map, for 95 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, with 44% 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 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19131
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19693
  • 1970 – 198935
  • 1990 – 200940
  • since 201011

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 83: 1910. 2 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
1914

Une chênaie désigne un lieu planté de chênes. Un ancien hameau de Uccle s'appelait ainsi ('Eeckhout'). (remark in French, as published)

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