History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Square Raymond Volckerick

In Dutch: Raymond Volckericksquare

Square Raymond Volckerick, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 30 buildings on the Atlas map, for 31 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 70% 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 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 198921
  • 1990 – 20099
  • 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
Named in
1949

Raymond Volckerick (1906-1944), ingénieur, agent de renseignement et d'action, arrêté en 1941. Décédé en 1944 à Brandebourg en Allemagne (remark in French, as published)

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