History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Général Bastin

In Dutch: Generaal Bastinlaan

Avenue Général Bastin, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 20 buildings on the Atlas map, for 20 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1945 to 1969, with 55% 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 – 196911
  • 1970 – 19899
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 21: 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
Named in
1954

Jules Bastin (1889 – 1944) prisonnier lors de la Première Guerre mondiale, célèbre pour ses tentatives d'évasions. Responsable de la Légion belge, 1942-1943. Déporté à Gross-Rosen (remark in French, as published)

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