History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue de Broqueville

In Dutch: de Broquevillelaan

Avenue de Broqueville, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 132 buildings on the Atlas map, for 153 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 53% 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 – 18491
  • 1850 – 18794
  • 1880 – 19133
  • 1914 – 194415
  • 1945 – 196970
  • 1970 – 198915
  • 1990 – 200915
  • since 20109

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 169: 1920. 26 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
Belgian figure
Named in
1927

Charles de Broqueville (1860 – 1940), premier ministre belge. Il fut ministre de la Guerre pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Ex. Avenue de Wezembeek (remark in French, as published)

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