History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Place Rik Wouters

In Dutch: Rik Woutersplein

Place Rik Wouters, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 12 buildings on the Atlas map, for 12 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, with 58% 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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20097
  • since 20105

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
Commemorative name
Theme
Arts and culture
Named in
1915

'Le Collège du 6 janvier 1914 la dénomme place de la Citadelle, dénomination que l’on retrouve dans un PV du Collège d’août 1938. La place est ensuite renommée Rik Wouters, du nom du peintre fauviste et sculpteur (Malines 1882 - Amsterdam 1916), qui a habité et travaillé au 58, rue de la Sapinière.' (remark in French, as published)

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