History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Avenue Edmond Mesens

In Dutch: Edmond Mesenslaan

Avenue Edmond Mesens, in Etterbeek, has 51 buildings on the Atlas map, for 54 addresses. It was mostly built between 1914 and 1944: 78% 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 – 194440
1945 – 19697
1970 – 19893
1990 – 20091
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 39: 1924. 11 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: Commemorative name
Theme: Local notables
Named in: 1924

Edmond Mesens (1842-1918), bourgmestre à Etterbeek de 1884 à 1897, et de 1907 à 1918. (remark in French, as published)

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