History of a street · 1082 Berchem-Sainte-Agathe

Rue Potaarde

In Dutch: Potaardestraat

Rue Potaarde, in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, has 135 buildings on the Atlas map, for 146 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1990 to 2009, with 47% of the buildings, but the street was built in several stages. Almost everything there appears after 1914.

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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 – 198956
  • 1990 – 200963
  • since 201016

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
Economic life

L'argile du sol de cet endroit intervient dans la production des briques. (remark in French, as published)

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