History of a street · 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

Square des Libérateurs

In Dutch: Bevrijderssquare

Square des Libérateurs, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, has 11 buildings on the Atlas map, for 12 addresses. It was mostly built between 1914 and 1944: 64% 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 – 19134
  • 1914 – 19447
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • 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
First World War
Named in
1930

En mars 1930, le collège donnait le nom square des Combattants à celui-ci. Néanmoins, un tel square des Combattants existe déjà à Bruxelles alors on lui donne le nom de square des Libérateurs le 28 juillet 1930. (remark in French, as published)

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