History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Emile Vandervelde

In Dutch: Emile Vanderveldelaan

Avenue Emile Vandervelde, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 69 buildings on the Atlas map, for 71 addresses. No period dominates: the street mixes buildings from 5 periods, from the 1800s to the 2020s. 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 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19695
  • 1970 – 19892
  • 1990 – 200926
  • since 201035

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 151: 1839. 8 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
1939

Emile Vandervelde (1866 – 1938) vécut à Ixelles mais n'est pas honoré d'une rue dans sa commune. Il est l'auteur du texte de fondation du Parti Ouvrier Belge : la Charte de Quaregnon. (remark in French, as published)

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