History of a street · 1060 Saint-Gilles

Avenue Fonsny

In Dutch: Fonsnylaan

Avenue Fonsny, in Saint-Gilles, has 77 buildings on the Atlas map, for 121 addresses. It was mostly built between 1880 and 1913: 68% 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 – 187913
1880 – 191352
1914 – 19444
1945 – 19692
1970 – 19891
1990 – 20094
since 20101

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 48: 1864. 14 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: Local notables
Named in: 1864

Jean-Toussaint Fonsny (1801-1884), bourgmestre entre 1861 et 1870, ainsi qu'entre 1872 et 1881. (remark in French, as published)

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