History of a street · 1120 Brussels
Rue du Wimpelberg
In Dutch: Wimpelbergstraat
Rue du Wimpelberg, in Brussels, has 97 buildings on the Atlas map, for 100 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 2 periods, from the 1990s to the 2020s. Almost everything there appears after 1914.
When the street was built
- before 14000
- 1400 – 15990
- 1600 – 16990
- 1700 – 17990
- 1800 – 18490
- 1850 – 18790
- 1880 – 19130
- 1914 – 19440
- 1945 – 19690
- 1970 – 19890
- 1990 – 200946
- since 201051
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
- Descriptive name
- Theme
- Places and destinations
- Named in
- 1922
Le Wimpelberg est le nom d'une ancienne colline de la localité. Ex. rue des Hêtres (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Further reading: City of Brussels Archives