History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Avenue du Maelbeek

In Dutch: Maelbeeklaan

Avenue du Maelbeek, in Etterbeek, has 18 buildings on the Atlas map, for 23 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 94% 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 – 191317
1914 – 19440
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19891
1990 – 20090
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 41: 1901. 5 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: Descriptive name
Theme: Relief and landscape
Named in: 1986

A l'origine une rue (15/09/1913), l'avenue du Maelbeek longeait initialement un affluent de ce cours d'eau, le Dambeek, jusqu'à son alignement en 1862. (remark in French, as published)

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