Avenue des Croix du Feu
In Dutch: Vuurkruisenlaan
Avenue des Croix du Feu, in Brussels, has 106 buildings on the Atlas map, for 108 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 57% 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 – 194413
- 1945 – 196914
- 1970 – 198960
- 1990 – 200916
- since 20103
The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 225: 1937. 13 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
- First World War
- Named in
- 1936
La Croix du Feu est une médaille honorifique créée en 1934 et fut attribuée aux combattants ayant été touchés au front lors de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ex. avenue de l'Exposition (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Further reading: City of Brussels Archives