History of a street · 1140 Evere

Avenue des Anciens Combattants

In Dutch: Oud-Strijderslaan

Avenue des Anciens Combattants, in Evere, has 83 buildings on the Atlas map, for 99 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, 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 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 196914
  • 1970 – 198928
  • 1990 – 200932
  • since 20109

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 87: 1966. 10 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
Commemorative name
Theme
Second World War
Named in
1933

'Hommage aux héros belges tombés au champ d'honneur' (remark in French, as published)

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