History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Chaussée d'Anvers

In Dutch: Antwerpsesteenweg

Chaussée d'Anvers, in Brussels, has 200 buildings on the Atlas map, for 279 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 61% 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 – 18491
  • 1850 – 187915
  • 1880 – 1913121
  • 1914 – 194448
  • 1945 – 19698
  • 1970 – 19897
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 328: 1888. 8 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
Descriptive name
Theme
Places and destinations
Named in
1851

Au cours du temps, l’artère est tour à tour dénommée chemin d’Anvers ou route de Malines (XVIIIe siècle), chaussée de Bruxelles à Anvers (après 1835), avant d’acquérir, en 1851, sa dénomination définitive de chaussée d’Anvers (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives

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