History of a street · 1130 Brussels

Rue du Biplan

In Dutch: Tweedekkerstraat

Rue du Biplan, in Brussels, has 41 buildings on the Atlas map, for 47 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 71% 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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 198929
  • 1990 – 200910
  • since 20102

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
Places and destinations
Named in
1922

Les biplans sont des avions qui ont été beaucoup utilisé durant la Première Guerre mondiale. La rue de Verdun est une parallèle. Mais on se situe également à proximité de l'ancien aérodrome de Haren-Evere, avec plusieurs noms de rues sur cette thématique. ex. chemin de Bruxelles. (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives