History of a street · 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean

Square Edmond Machtens

In Dutch: Edmond Machtenssquare

Square Edmond Machtens, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, has 7 buildings on the Atlas map, for 10 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 4 periods, from the 1940s to the 2010s. 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 – 19692
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 20092
  • since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 1: 1972.

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
Local notables
Named in
1968

Edmond Machtens (1902-1978) fut bourgmestre de 1939 à 1978. (remark in French, as published)

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