History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Rue de la Science

In Dutch: Wetenschapsstraat

Rue de la Science, in Brussels, has 9 buildings on the Atlas map, for 15 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 56% 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 – 19440
1945 – 19695
1970 – 19891
1990 – 20092
since 20101

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: 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