History of a street · 1160 Auderghem

Avenue Guillaume Lefever

In Dutch: Guillaume Lefeverlaan

Avenue Guillaume Lefever, in Auderghem, has 29 buildings on the Atlas map, for 31 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 – 196914
  • 1970 – 198915
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 20100

No building in the street is dated by the heritage inventory: the years are estimates by district.

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
First World War
Named in
1925

Guillaume Lefever (1893-1914) fut soldat. Issu d'une famille très nombreuse, abandonnésuite au décès de leur mère et la fuite de leur père. Décédé lors d'une embuscade. Sa sépulture est ramenée à Auderghem à la demande de la soeur aînée en 1922. (remark in French, as published)

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