History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Rue Edouard Olivier

In Dutch: Edouard Olivierstraat

Rue Edouard Olivier, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 60 buildings on the Atlas map, for 62 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 47% 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 – 196928
  • 1970 – 198927
  • 1990 – 20095
  • 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
Commemorative name
Theme
Local notables
Named in
1931

Edouard Olivier (?) fut bourgmestre de la commune entre 1870 et 1872, date à laquelle Léopold Wiener le remplaça. (remark in French, as published)

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