Avenue de la Croix-Rouge
In Dutch: Rode Kruislaan
Avenue de la Croix-Rouge, in Brussels, has 48 buildings on the Atlas map, for 48 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 48% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.
When the street was built
- before 14000
- 1400 – 15990
- 1600 – 16990
- 1700 – 17990
- 1800 – 18490
- 1850 – 18790
- 1880 – 19130
- 1914 – 19440
- 1945 – 19694
- 1970 – 198923
- 1990 – 200919
- since 20102
The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 41: 1965. 3 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
- Values and virtues
- Named in
- 1939
La Croix-Rouge fut fondée par Henry Dunant (1828-1910), qui est un homme d'affaire suisse. (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Further reading: City of Brussels Archives