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Rue Jean-Baptiste Colyns

In Dutch: Jean-Baptiste Colynsstraat

Rue Jean-Baptiste Colyns, in Ixelles, has 67 buildings on the Atlas map, for 73 addresses. It was mostly built between 1914 and 1944: 72% 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 – 194448
  • 1945 – 196915
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 20091
  • since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 106: 1922. 10 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
Arts and culture
Named in
1904

Jean-Baptiste Colyns (1834-1902), violoniste et professeur au Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. (remark in French, as published)

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