History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Avenue Emile Van Becelaere

In Dutch: Emile Van Becelaerelaan

Avenue Emile Van Becelaere, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 158 buildings on the Atlas map, for 178 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 53% 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 – 191315
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19692
  • 1970 – 198984
  • 1990 – 200952
  • since 20105

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 92: 1893. 19 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
1904

Emile Van Becelaere , bourgmestre entre 1895 et 1904. (remark in French, as published)

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