History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Avenue du Cerf-Volant

In Dutch: Vliegerlaan

Avenue du Cerf-Volant, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 21 buildings on the Atlas map, for 22 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, 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 – 19131
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19691
  • 1970 – 19896
  • 1990 – 200911
  • since 20102

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 8: 1905. 2 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

ex. rue de l'Aurore (remark in French, as published)

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