History of a street · 1030 Schaerbeek

Avenue de Roodebeek

In Dutch: Roodebeeklaan

Avenue de Roodebeek, in Schaerbeek, has 123 buildings on the Atlas map, for 160 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1914 to 1944, with 39% 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 – 18791
1880 – 19131
1914 – 194448
1945 – 196924
1970 – 198939
1990 – 200910
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 267: 1857. 8 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: Relief and landscape
Named in: 1911

Le Roodebeek est un ruisseau qui traversait la localité jusqu'à la Woluwe (autre cours d'eau) et portait ce nom car ses eaux étaient ferrugineuses. (remark in French, as published)

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