History of a street · 1070 Anderlecht

Rue Otlet

In Dutch: Otletstraat

Rue Otlet, in Anderlecht, has 60 buildings on the Atlas map, for 79 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 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 – 18793
1880 – 191350
1914 – 19447
1945 – 19690
1970 – 19890
1990 – 20090
since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 29: 1864. 5 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: Scientists

L'origine du Mundaneum remonte à la fin du XIXe siècle. Créé à l’initiative de deux juristes belges, Paul Otlet (1868-1944), père de la documentation, et d’Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943), prix Nobel de la paix, le projet visait à rassembler tous les savoirs du monde et à les classer selon le système de Classification Décimale Universelle (CDU) qu’ils avaient mis au point. (remark in French, as published)

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