History of a street · 1190 Forest

Rue Marguerite Bervoets

In Dutch: Marguerite Bervoetsstraat

Rue Marguerite Bervoets, in Forest, has 23 buildings on the Atlas map, for 42 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 39% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. 30% appear before 1914.

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When the street was built

before 14000
1400 – 15990
1600 – 16990
1700 – 17990
1800 – 18493
1850 – 18793
1880 – 19131
1914 – 19440
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19899
1990 – 20097
since 20100

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: Second World War

Marguerite Bervoets (1914 – 1944) intégra un groupe armé de résistant lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Arrêtée par les Allemands, elle sera condamnée à mort et guillotinée aux côtés de Fernande Volral (qui a donné son nom à une rue de Jette). (remark in French, as published)

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