History of a street · 1020 Brussels

Rue Gustave Demanet

In Dutch: Gustave Demanetstraat

Rue Gustave Demanet, in Brussels, has 54 buildings on the Atlas map, for 65 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, with 39% 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 – 194419
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19893
1990 – 200921
since 201010

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 82: 1906. 20 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.

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: 1912

'La rue trouve son origine dans un ancien chemin sinueux, dénommé rue des Crapauds. Cette artère fut rebaptisée rue Gustave Demanet vers 1912. Notons que cette dénomination, qui rend hommage à un homme s’étant distingué par des actes de libéralité, avait d’abord été attribuée, en 1891, au sentier dit Kauwenbergstraat, situé sur le plateau du Heysel.' (remark in French, as published)

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

Further reading: City of Brussels Archives