History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Chaussée de Roodebeek

In Dutch: Roodebeeksteenweg

Chaussée de Roodebeek, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 296 buildings on the Atlas map, for 340 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 47% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. 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 – 19440
  • 1945 – 196956
  • 1970 – 1989138
  • 1990 – 200982
  • since 201020

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 230: 1951. 3 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
Relief and landscape

Le Roodebeek est un ruisseau qui traversait la localité jusqu'à la Woluwe (autre cours d'eau) et portait ce nom car ses eaux étaient ferrugineuses. (remark in French, as published)

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