History of a street · 1180 Uccle

Rue de l'Equateur

In Dutch: Evenaarsstraat

Rue de l'Equateur, in Uccle, has 41 buildings on the Atlas map, for 41 addresses. It was mostly built since 2010: 90% 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 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19692
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20092
  • since 201037

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 45: 1950. 2 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
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature
Named in
1919

En référence à l'axe latitudinal de la Terre. Lié à la proximité de l'Observatoire royal. (remark in French, as published)

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