Rue du Transvaal
In Dutch: Transvaalstraat
Rue du Transvaal, in Anderlecht, has 52 buildings on the Atlas map, for 55 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1880 to 1913, with 60% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. 60% appear before 1914.
When the street was built
- before 14000
- 1400 – 15990
- 1600 – 16990
- 1700 – 17990
- 1800 – 18490
- 1850 – 18790
- 1880 – 191331
- 1914 – 194421
- 1945 – 19690
- 1970 – 19890
- 1990 – 20090
- since 20100
The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 3: 1903. 9 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
- Commemorative name
- Theme
- Foreign relations
- Named in
- 1901
La Transvaal est une région située en Afrique du Sud. C'est également le nom donné à un hameau de Auderghem, qui avait son propre bourgmestre jusque dans les années 1960, et qui fut surnommé ainsi suite à la présence d'une fabrique de munitions qui étaient destinées aux Boers de cette région. (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.