Avenue Brigade Piron
In Dutch: Brigade Pironlaan
Avenue Brigade Piron, in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, has 83 buildings on the Atlas map, for 91 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 43% 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 – 19442
- 1945 – 196936
- 1970 – 198935
- 1990 – 20099
- since 20101
The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 144: 1938. 4 buildings in the street are dated by the heritage inventory.
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
- 1945
L'avenue Brigade Piron commémore la brigade belge qui a participé à la libération de Bruxelles. Jean-Baptiste Piron (1896-1974 était natif de Molenbeek Saint Jean. L'avenue longe le Parc des Muses qui renferme, depuis 1964, un monument commémoratif en l'honneur de la Brigade Piron. (remark in French, as published)
Source: Odoniris, database of Brussels street names (EBxl), CC BY-SA 4.0.