History of a street · 1130 Brussels

Rue du Beemdgracht

In Dutch: Beemdgrachtstraat

Rue du Beemdgracht, in Brussels, has 18 buildings on the Atlas map, for 27 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 78% 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 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19691
  • 1970 – 198914
  • 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
Descriptive name
Theme
Relief and landscape
Named in
1955

En référence à un cours d'eau qui portait ce nom. (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives