History of a street · 1040 Brussels
Rue de la Loi
In Dutch: Wetstraat
Rue de la Loi, in Brussels, has 49 buildings on the Atlas map, for 80 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 7 periods, from the 1850s to the 2010s. Almost everything there appears after 1914.
When the street was built
- before 14000
- 1400 – 15990
- 1600 – 16990
- 1700 – 17990
- 1800 – 18490
- 1850 – 18791
- 1880 – 19131
- 1914 – 19442
- 1945 – 196916
- 1970 – 198913
- 1990 – 200914
- since 20102
The oldest individually dated building is at no. 155: 1927. 5 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
- Values and virtues
- Named in
- 1851
ex. rue Latérale (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Further reading: City of Brussels Archives