History of a street · 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

Avenue Edouard Bénès

In Dutch: Edouard Bénèslaan

Avenue Edouard Bénès, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, has 82 buildings on the Atlas map, for 86 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 60% 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 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19692
  • 1970 – 198949
  • 1990 – 200927
  • since 20104

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
Commemorative name
Theme
Foreign figure
Named in
1945

Nom francisé de Edvard Beneš (1884-1948) qui fut le dernier premier ministre démocrate en Tchécoslovaquie avant l'avènement du régime prosoviétique en 1948. (ex. Avenue de Koekelberg) (remark in French, as published)

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