History of a street · 1070 Anderlecht

Rue du Compas

In Dutch: Passerstraat

Rue du Compas, in Anderlecht, has 27 buildings on the Atlas map, for 51 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 74% 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 – 18796
1880 – 191320
1914 – 19441
1945 – 19690
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: Descriptive name
Theme: Places and destinations
Named in: 1901

Rue qui donne sur la rue du Bateau, elle-même sur le Canal. Il s'agit du compas (boussole en néerlandais ?) qui permet de naviguer. (remark in French, as published)

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