History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Drève du Rembucher

In Dutch: Terugdrift

Drève du Rembucher, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 59 buildings on the Atlas map, for 59 addresses. It was mostly built since 2010: 78% 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 – 19890
  • 1990 – 200913
  • since 201046

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
Sport and leisure

Rembucher est un verbe appartenant au champ lexical de la chasse. Le dictionnaire Larousse définit ce verbe ainsi “Suivre l'animal avec le limier jusqu'à la rentrée dans le fort ou l'enceinte. S'assurer de l'endroit où un animal est resté.”. Un synonyme est “faire une embuscade”. (remark in French, as published)

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