History of a street · 1090 Jette

Avenue Guillaume De Greef

In Dutch: Guillaume De Greeflaan

Avenue Guillaume De Greef, in Jette, has 25 buildings on the Atlas map, for 503 addresses. The best-represented period runs from 1970 to 1989, with 52% 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 – 19692
1970 – 198913
1990 – 20098
since 20102

The oldest building dated by the heritage inventory is at no. 33: 1959.

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: Scientists

Guillaume De Greef (1842-1924) était un sociologue (également avocat) qui fonda la revue La Liberté avec Hector Denis dans laquelle ils prônèrent les idées de Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, précurseur de l'anarchisme, et de Karl Marx, précurseur du communisme. (remark in French, as published)

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