History of a street · 1040 Etterbeek

Avenue Alexandre Galopin

In Dutch: Alexandre Galopinlaan

Avenue Alexandre Galopin, in Etterbeek, has 37 buildings on the Atlas map, for 38 addresses. It was mostly built between 1914 and 1944: 68% 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 – 194425
  • 1945 – 196911
  • 1970 – 19891
  • 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
Second World War
Named in
1949

Alexandre Galopin (1879-1944), gouverneur de la Société générale de Belgique, père de la doctrine 'Galopin', assassiné par la DeVlag en 1944 (remark in French, as published)

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