History of a street · 1070 Anderlecht

Rue Homère

In Dutch: Homerusstraat

Rue Homère, in Anderlecht, has 64 buildings on the Atlas map, for 64 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 83% 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 – 19891
1990 – 200953
since 201010

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: Arts and culture
Named in: 1923

Homère (VIIIe siècle avant J.-C. ?) est un poète épique grec et le plus ancien des écrivains grecs dont l'œuvre nous soit parvenue. Il serait l'auteur de l'Iliade et de l'Odyssée, poèmes fondateurs de la littérature grecque antique. Son existence fut entourée de légendes dès le VIe siècle avant J.-C. (remark in French, as published)

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