History of a street · 1200 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

Avenue Henri Lafontaine

In Dutch: Henri Lafontainelaan

Avenue Henri Lafontaine, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, has 25 buildings on the Atlas map, for 25 addresses. It was mostly built since 2010: 100% 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 – 18790
  • 1880 – 19130
  • 1914 – 19440
  • 1945 – 19690
  • 1970 – 19890
  • 1990 – 20090
  • since 201025

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
Belgian figure
Named in
1969

Henri-Marie Lafontaine (1854 – 1943) était fort impliqué au sein du Parti Ouvrier Belge, en faveur de la paix et de l'amélioration du statut des femmes. En 1913, il reçut le prix Nobel de la paix. Pacifiste, co-fondateur du Mundaneum (remark in French, as published)

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