History of a street · 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

Rue du Serpolet

In Dutch: Wilde Tijmstraat

Rue du Serpolet, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, has 7 buildings on the Atlas map, for 14 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 57% 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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19894
  • 1990 – 20093
  • 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
Named in
1879

Le serpolet, de la famille du thym, est un arbrisseau. Cette plante aromatique pousse jusqu'à 3000 mètres d'altitude et peut résister à de fortes gelées. (remark in French, as published)

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