History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Rue du Faucon

In Dutch: Valkstraat

Rue du Faucon, in Brussels, has 18 buildings on the Atlas map, for 23 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 89% of its buildings appear in that period.

See the street on the map Bruxelles Make it a poster

When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18791
  • 1880 – 191316
  • 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
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives