History of a street · 1160 Auderghem

Rue du Houyoux

In Dutch: Houyouxstraat

Rue du Houyoux, in Auderghem, has 27 buildings on the Atlas map, for 28 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1914 to 1944, with 56% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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When the street was built

  • before 14000
  • 1400 – 15990
  • 1600 – 16990
  • 1700 – 17990
  • 1800 – 18490
  • 1850 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 194415
  • 1945 – 196910
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 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
Relief and landscape
Named in
1913

Le Houyoux est un ruisseau, affluent de la Meuse. (remark in French, as published)

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