History of a street · 1030 Schaerbeek

Avenue des Héliotropes

In Dutch: Heliotropenlaan

Avenue des Héliotropes, in Schaerbeek, has 30 buildings on the Atlas map, for 30 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1914 to 1944, with 53% 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 – 194416
  • 1945 – 196914
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 1: 1923. 5 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
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature
Named in
1908

quartier des Fleurs (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: 1030.be