History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Boulevard Louis Schmidt

In Dutch: Louis Schmidtlaan

Boulevard Louis Schmidt, in Etterbeek, has 77 buildings on the Atlas map, for 91 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 6 periods, from the 1880s to the 2020s. 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 – 19135
  • 1914 – 194415
  • 1945 – 196921
  • 1970 – 198916
  • 1990 – 200912
  • since 20108

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 1: 1901. 18 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
Second World War
Named in
1945

Louis Schmidt (1877-1944) avait été bourgmestre de la commune d'Etterbeek et décéda en 1944 au camp de Breslau. Ex. bd saint-Michel (remark in French, as published)

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