History of a street · 1040 Brussels

Rue de la Science

In Dutch: Wetenschapsstraat

Rue de la Science, in Brussels, has 15 buildings on the Atlas map, for 20 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 4 periods, from the 1940s to the 2010s. 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 – 19893
1990 – 20094
since 20103

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