History of a street · 1050 Ixelles

Rue des Mérisiers

In Dutch: Kriekenbomenstraat

Rue des Mérisiers, in Ixelles, has 9 buildings on the Atlas map, for 10 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 – 19693
  • 1970 – 19893
  • 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
Nature
Named in
1911

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