History of a street · 1190 Forest

Avenue Fontaine Vanderstraeten

In Dutch: Fontaine Vanderstraetenlaan

Avenue Fontaine Vanderstraeten, in Forest, has 16 buildings on the Atlas map, for 22 addresses. It was mostly built between 1945 and 1969: 88% 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 – 19440
  • 1945 – 196914
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 8: 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
Commemorative name
Theme
Local notables
Named in
1916

La famille Fontaine-Vanderstraeten possédait le domaine du Wyngaard à la fin du XIXe siècle, c'est-à-dire le domaine du Vignoble. Ex. Avenue Fontaine (doublon) (remark in French, as published)

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