History of a street · 1090 Jette

Rue des Flamands

In Dutch: Vlamingenstraat

Rue des Flamands, in Jette, has 77 buildings on the Atlas map, for 78 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1914 to 1944, with 48% 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 – 194437
  • 1945 – 196930
  • 1970 – 19897
  • 1990 – 20093
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 30: 1927. 37 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
Regions and countries
Named in
1928

Parallèle à la rue des Wallons, il semble que l'intention soit symbolique. (remark in French, as published)

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