History of a street · 1060 Saint-Gilles

Rue de l'Eglise Saint-Gilles

In Dutch: Sint-Gilliskerkstraat

Rue de l'Eglise Saint-Gilles, in Saint-Gilles, has 58 buildings on the Atlas map, for 70 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 64% 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 – 18791
1880 – 191337
1914 – 194419
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19891
1990 – 20090
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 49: 1861. 6 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: Buildings

Référence à Saint Gilles, également patron de la localité. Autrefois celle-ci s'appelait d'ailleurs 'Obbrussel', 'adoptera', mais acquit par volonté populaire le nom de Saint-Gilles. Une rue de l'Eglise existe en 1871, (remark in French, as published)

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