History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Rue Emmanuel Mertens

In Dutch: Emmanuel Mertensstraat

Rue Emmanuel Mertens, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 59 buildings on the Atlas map, for 60 addresses. It was mostly built since 2010: 78% of its buildings appear in that period.

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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 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 200913
  • since 201046

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
1918

Emmanuel Mertens (1891 – 1916) est né à Louvain, vivait à Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, et est enterré à Londres. (remark in French, as published)

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