History of a street · 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

Avenue des Myrtes

In Dutch: Mirtenlaan

Avenue des Myrtes, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, has 65 buildings on the Atlas map, for 67 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 52% 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 – 196934
  • 1970 – 198927
  • 1990 – 20093
  • 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
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature
Named in
1929

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