History of a street · 1150 Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

Avenue des Frères Legrain

In Dutch: Gebroeders Legrainlaan

Avenue des Frères Legrain, in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, has 89 buildings on the Atlas map, for 93 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 47% 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 – 19440
  • 1945 – 196915
  • 1970 – 198942
  • 1990 – 200930
  • since 20102

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 98: 1957.

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

Il s'agit de Marcel et Henri Legrain. Membre du réseau Martigny-Daumerie. Marcel Legrain est exécuté le 24/06/1942 et René Legrain meurt en janvier 1945 au camp de Gross-Rosen. (remark in French, as published)

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