History of a street · 1040 Brussels

Rue de l'Industrie

In Dutch: Nijverheidsstraat

Rue de l'Industrie, in Brussels, has 14 buildings on the Atlas map, for 22 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 36% 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 – 19441
1945 – 19695
1970 – 19893
1990 – 20094
since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 21: 1988.

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: Values and virtues

Quartier à thème autour des différents secteurs de la société : la science, les arts, la loi, le commerce et l'industrie. Ces différents axes s'articulent autour du square Frère Orban. (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives