History of a street · 1090 Jette

Rue Abbé Victor de Sloover

In Dutch: Priester Victor de Slooverstraat

Rue Abbé Victor de Sloover, in Jette, has 22 buildings on the Atlas map, for 23 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 59% 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 – 19695
  • 1970 – 198913
  • 1990 – 20093
  • since 20101

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
Second World War
Named in
1965

Victor De Sloover (1902, Comines – 1944, Wolfenbüttel, Allemagne) était abbé-enseignant au Collège Saint-Pierre de Jette. Il a été exécuté, comme l’Abbé Paul LeRoux et le douanier Eugène Toussaint, le 7.06.1944 à Wolfenbüttel (remark in French, as published)

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