History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Rue de l'Etang

In Dutch: Vijverstraat

Rue de l'Etang, in Etterbeek, has 29 buildings on the Atlas map, for 57 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 83% 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 – 191324
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19692
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

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
Descriptive name
Theme
Relief and landscape

Donnant sur la rue de l'étang, suite à la présence de celui-ci jusqu'en 1840, date où Ixelles et Etterbeek décidèrent de combler conjointement plusieurs étangs sur leurs communes. (remark in French, as published)

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