History of a street · 1090 Jette

Avenue Rommelaere

In Dutch: Rommelaerelaan

Avenue Rommelaere, in Jette, has 51 buildings on the Atlas map, for 52 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 5 periods, from the 1910s to the 2010s. 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 – 194411
1945 – 19697
1970 – 198916
1990 – 200915
since 20102

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 66: 1921. 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: Scientists
Named in: 1926

'À l’instar d’autres artères proches de Brugmann, sa dénomination, attribuée par arrêté du Collège de la Ville de Bruxelles du 27.07.1926, rend hommage à un médecin, Guillaume Rommelaere (1836-1916), qui fut recteur de l’Université libre de Bruxelles.' urban. Ex. rue des Cailloux (remark in French, as published)

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