History of a street · 1050 Ixelles

Avenue de la Forêt

In Dutch: Woudlaan

Avenue de la Forêt, in Ixelles, has 14 buildings on the Atlas map, for 19 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 64% of its buildings appear in that period.

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When the street was built

before 14000
1400 – 15990
1600 – 16990
1700 – 17990
1800 – 18490
1850 – 18790
1880 – 19130
1914 – 19440
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19899
1990 – 20094
since 20101

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: Descriptive name
Theme: Places and destinations
Named in: 1897

Créée en 1888 et adjacente à la chaussée de Boitsfort, elle fait bien évidemment référence au bois qui se trouvait à cet endroit. Le bois est appelé 'vrouwtjesbos', le 'bois des Commères'. ex. Wallinegat ou Wallinestraat. Dénomination sur Bxl-Ville, 23/03/1907 (remark in French, as published)

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