Avenue de la Houlette
In Dutch: Herdersstaflaan
Avenue de la Houlette, in Auderghem, has 16 buildings on the Atlas map, for 20 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 5 periods, from the 1850s to the 2000s. Almost everything there appears after 1914.
When the street was built
- before 14000
- 1400 – 15990
- 1600 – 16990
- 1700 – 17990
- 1800 – 18490
- 1850 – 18791
- 1880 – 19130
- 1914 – 19445
- 1945 – 19691
- 1970 – 19894
- 1990 – 20095
- since 20100
The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 9: 1925. 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
- Descriptive name
- Theme
- Economic life
- Named in
- 1925
La Houlette désigne initialement le bâton du berger, composé à l'extrémité d'une forme en courbe permettant d'accrocher des mottes de terre et de les lancer sur un mouton qui s'éloignerait trop. La rue de la Houlette (ex. rue de la Brebis) date de 1917.. Réaménagement du quartier et coupure de la voirie en deux. Naissance de l'avenue de la Houlette (1925). Nouveau réaménagement en 1927. (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.