History of a street · 1060 Saint-Gilles

Chaussée de Forest

In Dutch: Vorstse Steenweg

Chaussée de Forest, in Saint-Gilles, has 171 buildings on the Atlas map, for 251 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 68% 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 – 18793
  • 1880 – 1913116
  • 1914 – 194444
  • 1945 – 19696
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20091
  • since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 176: 1892. 50 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
1920

ex. chaussée de Bruxelles (remark in French, as published)

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