History of a street · 1180 Uccle

Rue Keyenbempt

In Dutch: Keyenbemptstraat

Rue Keyenbempt, in Uccle, has 52 buildings on the Atlas map, for 53 addresses. It was mostly built between 1990 and 2009: 75% 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 – 200939
  • since 201013

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
Descriptive name
Theme
Places and destinations
Named in
1856

Le 'bempt' était toute la région maraîchère du bas de Forest qui était fréquemment inondée et où on patinait en hiver (remark in French, as published)

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