History of a street · 1160 Auderghem

Avenue des Frères Goemaere

In Dutch: Gebroeders Goemaerelaan

Avenue des Frères Goemaere, in Auderghem, has 47 buildings on the Atlas map, for 48 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 49% 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 – 19443
1945 – 19690
1970 – 198923
1990 – 200917
since 20104

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 38: 1919. 3 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: First World War
Named in: 1925

Les frères Henri-Adolphe (1895-1914) et Joseph-Valentin (1896-1917) combattirent lors de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ils étaient originaires de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode mais vivaient dans la commune. Henri-Adolphe fut tué en Flandres Occidentale, et Joseph-Valentin, trois ans plus tard, alors qu'il essayait de passer la frontière belgo-néerlandaise. (remark in French, as published)

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