History of a street · 1050 Ixelles

Rue du Relais

In Dutch: Pleisterstraat

Rue du Relais, in Ixelles, has 57 buildings on the Atlas map, for 70 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 37% 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 – 19133
  • 1914 – 194410
  • 1945 – 196921
  • 1970 – 198921
  • 1990 – 20092
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 121: 1911. 12 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
Descriptive name
Theme
Economic life
Named in
1908

La rue rassemblait des enseignes et auberges étant donné sa fonction d'axe de communication, pour permettre aux conducteurs d'attelages de se ressourcer. (remark in French, as published)

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