History of a street · 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Rue du Méridien

In Dutch: Middaglijnstraat

Rue du Méridien, in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, has 65 buildings on the Atlas map, for 84 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 80% 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 – 187912
  • 1880 – 191352
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19691
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 10: 1899. 6 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.

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
1838

Un méridien est un cercle abstrait tracé sur la Terre (ou toute sphère céleste) et passant par les pôles. (remark in French, as published)

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