History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Rue de la Sapinière

In Dutch: Dennebosstraat

Rue de la Sapinière, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 75 buildings on the Atlas map, for 81 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 2 periods, from the 1990s to the 2020s. 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 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 200933
  • since 201042

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
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature
Named in
1909

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