History of a street · 1000 Brussels

Rue du Temple

In Dutch: Tempelstraat

Rue du Temple, in Brussels, has 18 buildings on the Atlas map, for 24 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 83% 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 – 18491
  • 1850 – 18792
  • 1880 – 191315
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 5: 1836.

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
Buildings
Named in
1851

ex. passage de l'Eglise (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives