History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Rue du Meiboom

In Dutch: Meiboomstraat

Rue du Meiboom, in Brussels, has 8 buildings on the Atlas map, for 16 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 38% 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 – 19440
1945 – 19693
1970 – 19891
1990 – 20093
since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 23: 1960.

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: Commemorative name
Theme: Folklore
Named in: 1954

Le Meyboom est une tradition bruxelloise vieille de plusieurs siècles. Elle prend son origine en 1311, lorsque des Bruxellois - la compagnie des archers de Saint-Laurent - repoussent les Louvanistes à la porte de Bruxelles. Le duc Jean II leur offre alors l'autorisation de planter un arbre de mai chaque année, arbre venant de la forêt de Soignes. La tradition a perduré jusqu'à nos jours, bien que les louvanistes aient essayé à plusieurs reprises de l'entraver (en 1939 pour la dernière fois). (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives