History of a street · 1190 Forest

Avenue du Globe

In Dutch: Globelaan

Avenue du Globe, in Forest, has 15 buildings on the Atlas map, for 50 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 4 periods, from the 1940s to the 2020s. 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 – 19693
  • 1970 – 19895
  • 1990 – 20094
  • since 20103

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 49: 1968.

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
Buildings
Named in
1956

Toponyme lié à un débit de boisson, la 'Taverne du Globe' qui existait depuis 1880 (remark in French, as published)

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