History of a street · 1120 Brussels

Chemin du Rossignol

In Dutch: Nachtegaalsweg

Chemin du Rossignol, in Brussels, has 40 buildings on the Atlas map, for 44 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 65% 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 – 18790
1880 – 19130
1914 – 19440
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19891
1990 – 200926
since 201013

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

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: Symbolic name
Theme: Nature

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives