History of a street · 1050 Ixelles

Rue des Liégeois

In Dutch: Luikenaarsstraat

Rue des Liégeois, in Ixelles, has 67 buildings on the Atlas map, for 75 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 85% of its buildings appear in that period.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 191357
  • 1914 – 19449
  • 1945 – 19691
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 4: 1896. 14 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
Commemorative name
Theme
Second World War
Named in
1946

Hommage rendu en 1945 aux enfants liégeois qui furent accueillis à Ixelles. Par échange de bons procédés, une rue des Ixellois existe à Liège à proximité de la gare de Liège-Guillemin. ex. rue de l'Orge. et précédemment Montagne du Cygne (1896) (remark in French, as published)

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