History of a street · 1170 Watermael-Boitsfort

Avenue des Lucioles

In Dutch: Glimwormenlaan

Avenue des Lucioles, in Watermael-Boitsfort, has 35 buildings on the Atlas map, for 35 addresses. It was mostly built between 1970 and 1989: 60% 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 – 19440
  • 1945 – 196911
  • 1970 – 198921
  • 1990 – 20093
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 31: 1954.

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
Symbolic name
Theme
Nature
Named in
1926

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