History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Place du Grand Sablon

In Dutch: Grote Zavel

Place du Grand Sablon, in Brussels, has 34 buildings on the Atlas map, for 40 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 88% 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 – 18792
  • 1880 – 191330
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 31: 1898. 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 terme Sablon est une traduction de Zavelpoel, ou mare sablonneuse, et désignait ces terrains, en dehors de la première enceinte, où se trouvent la place aujourd'hui. (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives

On this street

SquareFreePlace du Grand SablonSquare of antique dealers and chocolate makers, below the church of Notre-Dame du Sablon.BruxellesIllustration: filet américainBelgian restaurantAu Vieux Saint-MartinA Sablon brasserie linked to Joseph Niels, who invented filet américain.Bruxelles