History of a street · 1082 Berchem-Sainte-Agathe

Rue Emile Van Overstraeten

In Dutch: Emile Van Overstraetenstraat

Rue Emile Van Overstraeten, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, has 28 buildings on the Atlas map, for 29 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 50% 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 – 19699
  • 1970 – 198914
  • 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
First World War
Named in
1933

Emile Van Overstraeten (?) combattit et mourut durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il vivait dans la commune. Une plaque commémorative à son nom a été érigée sur l'école communal qu'il avait fréquenté. (remark in French, as published)

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