Avenue des Ménestrels
In Dutch: Menestrelenlaan
Avenue des Ménestrels, in Anderlecht, has 52 buildings on the Atlas map, for 56 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 58% 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 – 19440
- 1945 – 196917
- 1970 – 198930
- 1990 – 20094
- since 20101
No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.
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
- Arts and culture
- Named in
- 1948
Les ménestrels étaient des musiciens itinérants ou employés par des seigneurs, qui récitaient des proses ou des histoires en s'accompagnant d'un instrument. (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.