History of a street · 1160 Auderghem

Rue du Vieux Moulin

In Dutch: Oude Molenstraat

Rue du Vieux Moulin, in Auderghem, has 66 buildings on the Atlas map, for 77 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 58% 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 – 19131
1914 – 19440
1945 – 19690
1970 – 198938
1990 – 200922
since 20105

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 103: 1910.

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: 1916

En référence à un moulin à eau appartenant au prieuré de Valduchesse et qui permettait à la population de moudre le grain. Ce moulin était sans doute soumis à des droits de ban ('location' du moulin en échange d'un impôt). (remark in French, as published)

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