History of a street · 1190 Forest

Avenue du Bempt

In Dutch: Bemptlaan

Avenue du Bempt, in Forest, has 26 buildings on the Atlas map, for 31 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 65% of its buildings appear in that period.

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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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19897
  • 1990 – 200917
  • since 20102

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
Descriptive name
Theme
Economic life
Named in
1916

La famille Clutinc possédait de nombreuses bempt, c'est-à-dire des grandes prairies humides. Leurs propriétés se situaient là. Ex. Avenue Beekkant (doublon) (remark in French, as published)

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