History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Rue Commandant Ponthier

In Dutch: Kommandant Ponthierstraat

Rue Commandant Ponthier, in Etterbeek, has 82 buildings on the Atlas map, for 91 addresses. It was mostly built between 1914 and 1944: 70% 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 – 194457
1945 – 196922
1970 – 19891
1990 – 20092
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 30: 1922. 15 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: Commemorative name
Theme: Foreign relations
Named in: 1923

Explorateur belge au Congo et officier de l'Etat Indépendant du Congo, Le Commandant Ponthier (1858-1893) prit part aux guerres de colonisation et fut tué pendant ces combats. (remark in French, as published)

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