History of a street · 1050 Ixelles

Rue du Brochet

In Dutch: Snoekstraat

Rue du Brochet, in Ixelles, has 66 buildings on the Atlas map, for 71 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 94% 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 – 191362
  • 1914 – 19443
  • 1945 – 19691
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

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
1893

Référence aux nombreux brochets qui peuplaient les étangs d'Ixelles et que la population appréciait pêcher. (remark in French, as published)

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