History of a street · 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Rue de la Limite

In Dutch: Grensstraat

Rue de la Limite, in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, has 107 buildings on the Atlas map, for 119 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 – 18790
  • 1880 – 191389
  • 1914 – 194416
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 65A: 1884. 8 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
Relief and landscape
Named in
1839

A cet emplacement, se trouvait la limite entre les paroisses Sainte-Marie et Saint-Joseph. (remark in French, as published)

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